Book
Terraform: Up & Running
Writing Infrastructure as Code (3rd ed.)
Yevgeniy Brikman
Summary
Takes Terraform from a first apply to production practice: state management and locking, module design, secrets, working across multiple providers, testing, and how a team shares one codebase without overwriting each other. The chapters on state and on production-grade code deal with the failure modes that hit real teams, which is where most tutorials stop. This is the third edition.
Target Readers
- SREs and platform engineers standardizing infrastructure as code across a team
- Developers using Terraform for isolated resources who now need module design and a state strategy
Tags
Colophon
- Publisher
- O'Reilly Media
- ISBN
- 978-1098116743
- Published
- Oct 2022
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Prerequisites
- Recommended
Infrastructure as Code
Kief Morris
Reason: Once you understand the principles of IaC, move to a concrete tool that realizes them. Brikman's 'Terraform: Up & Running' walks hands-on through Terraform, which declaratively defines cloud resources, turning abstract IaC principles into configuration code that actually runs.
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John Arundel, Justin Domingus
Reason: Once you can provision cluster infrastructure with Terraform, advance to operating the workloads running on top of it. 'Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes' supplies the operational-layer knowledge for actually running a K8s cluster you prepared with IaC, making the path from provisioning to operation continuous.