Deep-Dive Terraform on Azure: Automated Delivery and Deployment of Azure Solutions

Author:   Ritesh Modi
Publisher:   APress
Edition:   1st ed.
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Pages:   236
Publication Date:   28 September 2021
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Author:   Ritesh Modi
Publisher:   APress
Imprint:   APress
Edition:   1st ed.
Weight:   0.493kg
ISBN:  

9781484273272


ISBN 10:   1484273273
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   28 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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​Chapter 1:  Introduction to Infrastructure as Code  Chapter Goal: Understand the basics on Infrastructure as Code paradigm and known about its advantages, principles and tools. Understand the need to convert infrastructure into code. No of pages: 5       Sub -Topics 1.     Understanding Configuration Management 2.     Understanding Infrastructure as code 3.     Principles of Infrastructure as code 4.     Benefits and applicability for cloud environments Chapter 2:  Azure and Terraform Chapter Goal: Get an overview of Azure as enterprise cloud provider with different paradigm like IaaS, PaaS. Different ways to provision resources in Azure. How Terraform fits within the Azure Landscape and how it can be used to provision Azure resources. Understand the high-level architecture and workflow using Terraform No of pages: 15 Sub - Topics   1.      Overview of Azure cloud 2.      Overview of Terraform configuration management 3.      Terraform workflow for provisioning and de-provisioning of resources 4.      Terraform architecture – providers, plugins, resources, repositories Chapter 3: Getting Started with Terraform Chapter Goal: Getting hand dirty with Terraform, writing multiple terraform scripts exploring different concepts of Terraform. No of pages: 45 Sub - Topics:  1.     Understand Terraform CLI and using various options 2.     State Management in Terraform 3.     using Resources, providers, outputs 4.     Terraform Data types 5.  Dependency graphs in Terraform scripts  Chapter 4: Deep Dive into Terraform Chapter Goal: Understanding the advance features of Terraform both from component as well at script level. Write advance Terraform scripts for conditional deployments, multiple resource creation using loops. No of pages: 45 Sub - Topics: 1. Backend, state and workspace management in Terraform 2. dynamic provisioning of resources 3. loops, conditional statements – for, for-each, if 4. using Terraform functions – string, collection, encoding, file Chapter 5: Writing Reusable Modules in Terraform Chapter Goal: Writing reusable Terraform scripts using modules, storing modules in repositories and consuming them in multiple scripts. No of pages: 25 1.     Basic of Modules, child and parent modules 2.     Passing parameters and getting output from modules 3.     Using modules from multiple scripts. Chapter 6: Writing Secure Scripts with Terraform Chapter Goal: Management and administration of sensitive data, secrets and passwords within Terraform code. Usage of Key vaults for storing of secrets. No of pages: 20                           1.     Secure storage of credentials and sensitive information 2.     Usage of Managed Identities, certificates, service principles to connect to Azure 3.     Storing secrets in Azure Key vault Chapter 7: Repos, Versioning, CI/CD pipelines for Terraform Chapter Goal: Overview of storing and versioning of Terraform scripts such that each version can be used in isolation without conflicting with others. Using Terraform CLI in Azure DevOps pipelines to automate the process of deployment of Azure Resources. No of pages: 20   1.     Storing Terraform scripts in Azure DevOps 2.     Versioning of Terraform modules 3.     CICD pipelines for deploying resources on Azure using Terraform   Chapter 8: Writing Unit and Integration Tests for Terraform Chapter Goal: Testing of Terraform scripts using TerraTest utility. Understanding principles of unit and integrating testing alongside implementing them No of pages: 20                           1.     Exploring TerraTest and terra-lint 2.     Understanding Unit testing and writing unit tests for Terraform scripts 3.     Understanding Integration testing and writing Integration tests for Terraform scripts Chapter 9: Terraform Best Practices Chapter Goal: Understanding the best practices of authoring, deploying and managing Terraform scripts in general and in Azure No of pages: 10                           1.     Understanding Terraform Folder structure and deployment structure 2.     Writing testable Terraform scripts 3.      Writing Maintainable code – usage of variables, no hard-coding etc

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Ritesh Modi works with Microsoft as Senior Engineer on the Commercial Engineering team. He has served as Microsoft Regional Director as well as Regional Lead for Microsoft certified trainers. Ritesh is an architect, a senior evangelist, cloud architect, published author, speaker, and a known leader for his contributions in Blockchain, Ethereum, Datacenter, Azure, bots, cognitive services, DevOps, artificial intelligence, and automation. He has more than a decade of experience in building and deploying enterprise solutions for customers. He has contributed to AzureRM provider multiple times as an open source contribution.

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