But moving aside from small differences the book is very solid in regards of presenting you practical problems of creating and provisioning environments. Although for "content digestibility", they're greatly simplified compared to real staging/production and etc environments, they present the actual problems of how to use terraform at first, from syntax, declarative resources approach, using data/output/resource/var/module, procedural-like constructs, workflow and reusability.

AWS examples only. Minor nit here, but it’s kind of a bummer that the examples in the book and on github are aws only. I can’t blame the author here, since the point is Terraform, not your favorite provider X. Since this code comes from a book about Terraform, the vast majority of the code consists of Terraform examples in the Terraform has become a key player in the DevOps world for defining, launching, and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) across a variety of cloud and virtualization platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more. This hands-on second edition, expanded and thoroughly updated for Terraform version 0.12 and beyond, shows you the fastest way to get up and running.your infrastructure as code and to deploy and manage that infrastructure across a variety of public cloud Secrets management: examples of using different types of secret management tools (e.g., Vault, KMS, etc) with Terraform. You’ve now had a small taste of just 5 of the problems that have been solved in the Terraform world in the last few years and are now covered by the 3rd edition of Terraform: Up & Running, including how to work with multiple regions, accounts, and clouds, how to control your provider versions, how to manage secrets securely with Terraform, how to set up a secure CI / CD pipeline, and how to do control logic with modules.

Terraform Up and Running is a great introduction and guide to becoming "able" with terraform to server provision with AWS. AWS is the provider of choice and you'll see a lot of AWS lingo which is also explained. Familiarity is a plus, but not required, This book is the fastest way to get up and running with Terraform, an open source tool that allows you to defineI have been using Terraform at work for a couple of weeks. The setup was created by co-workers and I wanted to dive into this book to learn a bit more about TF on top of what I've already learned via d2d work.

The positives of the book would be that it covers all the main concepts of Terraform in a very easy-to-read way. Chapter 1 is a solid introduction to Terraform, its purpose, and its history. In chapters 2-5 you will actually follow a general infrastructure buildout from the first line of code, all the way through several refactors. Each refactor adding new features or better structure to the system. Essentially the author introduces a new concept and then shows how to improve our Terraform project by implementing that concept. I think this is a very good teaching method for beginners. The core features of Terraform are explained well and require no previous experience.The code examples on Github are very clear, I found myself lost just following along in the book. I highly recommend that readers use the code examples while working through the book. Update the code to work with the current version of Terraform. Providers are now separated from the main repository and the way terraform init works has changed slightly. On hindsight, without the proliferation of cloud, it would hard to see IaC taking hold as the languages would be so fragmented across each infra built out. Even though you can find most of the information online in docs or online articles, in the book such information is well structured and complicated topics are brought one by one without overwhelming the reader with complexity. This book is more than enough to help you set up Terraform in your projects on a decent level and start using it in production. For instructions on running the code, please consult the README in each folder, and, of course, the