With this practical book， you ll learn how to get you up and running with Terraform， an open source tool that allows you to define infrastructure for a variety of cloud providers including AWS， Azure， Google Cloud， DigitalOcean， and others using a simple， declarative programming language。 Author Yevgeniy （Jim） Brikman introduces you to Terraform syntax， and shows you how to deploy and manage infrastructure with just a few CLI commands。

You ll also learn:


Why every company needs to use infrastructure-as-code
Why Terraform is preferable to Chef， Puppet， Ansible， SaltStack， and CloudFormation
How you can manage Terraform state
How to create reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules
Terraform tips & tricks: loops， if-statements， and pitfalls
How to use Terraform as a team