Getting Started with Terraform

Summary

In this chapter, you learned a lot of new technologies that can be combined with Terraform to perfect your Infrastructure as Code setup. We practiced every type of provisioner Terraform has, specifically, the following:

• Executed tests with Inspec and Terraform outputs
• Generated inventory files for Ansible with local-exec
• Created new Chef nodes with the Chef provisioner
• Installed the Puppet agent with remote-exec and uploaded Puppet manifests with a file provisioner
• Made reusable provisioning with null_resource

We also took a look at a few third-party plugins, which are, unfortunately, of low quality, often unsupported, and having bugs. You should normally use both built-in providers and provisioners, or implement something with existing provisioners. ...