Getting Started with Terraform

Preface

With ever-rising adoption of Cloud technologies and infrastructure SaaS products, as well as always the constantly sizes of infrastructures the need, to manage it all in the form of code becomes more and more apparent. Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services have dozens of services and all of them require secure, re-usable and predictable configuration. Terraform, the primary tool for this job, appeared in 2014 and quickly gained popularity among system administrators and software developers. Since the first release, Terraform has achieved a lot of traction. It became the new de facto tool for managing the cloud environments. Terraform is also a tool that is quite new, that is changing with every release and that requires a new mindset ...