Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook

Chapter 3. Going Further with Terraform

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Handling different environments with Terraform
• Provisioning a CentOS 7 EC2 instance with Chef using Terraform
• Using data sources, templates, and local execution
• Executing remote commands at bootstrap using Terraform
• Using Docker with Terraform
• Simulating infrastructure changes using Terraform
• Teamwork – sharing Terraform infrastructure state
• Maintaining a clean and standardized Terraform code
• One Makefile to rule them all
• Team workflow example
• Managing GitHub with Terraform
• External monitoring integration with StatusCake

Introduction

In this chapter, we'll go beyond the essentials of using Terraform we covered in Chapter 2, Provisioning IaaS with Terraform. We'll discover ...