Cloud services and SaaS software permeate every company's IT landscape, requiring a shift from manually provisioned services to a more structured approach, with codification at its core. Terraform provides tools to manage the lifecycle of your IT landscape across thousands of different cloud providers and SaaS platforms.

By defining your infrastructure as code you can safely and predictably make changes, modularize crucial building blocks, and create reusable service components. Each recipe in this cookbook addresses a specific problem and prefaces the solution with detailed insights into the "how" and "why".

If you're just starting with Terraform and codified infrastructure, this book will help you create a solid foundation, on which you can build for years to come. If you're an advanced user, this guide will help you reaffirm your knowledge and take it to the next level, as you challenge yourself with more complex infrastructure, spread across multiple providers.

Recipes include:

Strategies on how to use Terraform with Version Control Systems
Validation and testing patterns for Terraform-managed infrastructure
Methods for importing pre-existing resources
Transforming infrastructure services into reusable components
Integrating Terraform with other HashiCorp tools
Deploying Containerized Workloads

About the Authors

Kerim is a senior developer advocate at HashiCorp, where he works on creating a positive experience for developers and infrastructure engineers. He is passionate about complex systems and enjoys the challenge of codifying them. Kerim enjoys aerial photography, rock climbing, and cake baking.

Taylor Dolezal is the head of ecosystem at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), where he drives innovation and collaboration in the cloud native landscape. Throughout his career, Taylor has been the bridge between complex systems and human understanding, whether through site reliability engineering, developing software solutions, or pairing on innovative technical stacks. When Taylor isn't immersed in the world of cloud native technologies, he's exploring trails around Los Angeles, diving into a good book, and optimizing his pun delivery pipeline for maximum ROI.

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