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Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook

You're reading from  Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464910
Pages 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Stephane Jourdan Stephane Jourdan
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Pierre Pomès Pierre Pomès
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Vagrant Development Environments 2. Provisioning IaaS with Terraform 3. Going Further with Terraform 4. Automating Complete Infrastructures with Terraform 5. Provisioning the Last Mile with Cloud-Init 6. Fundamentals of Managing Servers with Chef and Puppet 7. Testing and Writing Better Infrastructure Code with Chef and Puppet 8. Maintaining Systems Using Chef and Puppet 9. Working with Docker 10. Maintaining Docker Containers Index

One Makefile to rule them all


Some languages have environment or version managers such as RVM for Ruby, NVM for Node, or even Rackspace's DVM for Docker.

It's highly recommended to lock the Terraform version, so everyone in the team uses the same version, and updates can be painlessly handled. To do that, I suggest using a Terraform container, so we'll use here the one I use myself: sjourdan/terraform:<version> (from https://github.com/sjourdan/terraform-docker). But I understand replacing the simple terraform command by something such as docker run -it --rm -v `pwd`:/data sjourdan/terraform:0.7.3 can feel not so appealing. That's why we can use a common Makefile for each project using Terraform.

Using a common entry point for manipulating the infrastructure code helps a lot of sharing practices, enforcing policies, and integrating third-party services such as CI systems.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need the following:

  • A working Terraform installation

  • An AWS account...

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