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Terraform Cookbook

You're reading from   Terraform Cookbook Efficiently define, launch, and manage Infrastructure as Code across various cloud platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207554
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mikael Krief Mikael Krief
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up the Terraform Environment 2. Writing Terraform Configuration FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Dynamic Environments with Terraform 4. Using the Terraform CLI 5. Sharing Terraform Configuration with Modules 6. Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform 7. Deep Diving into Terraform 8. Using Terraform Cloud to Improve Collaboration 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Terragrunt as a wrapper for Terraform

In the many years that I have been working and supporting customers on Terraform, there is a recurring problem that prevents users from making full use of Terraform's functionality. What I have noticed is that these users do not encounter any problems with the language and the writing of the provider's resource configuration, but they do have difficulty with the automation of the Terraform client through the use of command lines for their workflow.

To simplify the automation of the Terraform workflow, whether for use on a local workstation or in a CI/CD pipeline, we can use Terragrunt as Terraform wrapper that integrates the Terraform workflow.

What we will learn in this recipe is how to use Terragrunt (which we have already studied in the previous recipe) as a Terraform wrapper.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we must have previously installed the Terragrunt binary on our workstations by following the instructions at https://terragrunt...

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