Getting Started with Terraform

The many tools around Terraform

Terraform is a small tool. While reading this book, you've hopefully noted how many different other tools were introduced all the time. They are as follows:

• Chef, Ansible, and Puppet: For configuration management
• Inspec and TestKitchen: For testing
• Terragrunt and Terraforming: As a helper for Terraform operations
• Git, git-crypt, GitLab, and GitLab CI: For teamwork
• S3 and Consul: For storage
• Bash and Ruby: For scripting

You have to learn all of these (or their analogues) to make Terraform production ready. The focus of all HashiCorp tools is to solve one problem and solve it well, and leave everything else to other software out there.

It can be beneficial quite often - you are not forced to change your toolset, you can pretty ...