techservicesillinois/terraform-demo

Demonstration code for training series for developing infrastructure as code using Terraform

Terraform demonstration code

NOTE: Any original material here is © Copyright 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, David D. Riddle, and Jon R. Roma.

QR code link to GitHub

Demonstration code and useful links can be found on our public repository on GitHub.

Useful links

From Technology Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• This GitHub repository

Terraform

• Introduction to Terraform
• Terraform documentation
• Terraform's website
• Terraform's download page
• Terraform on GitHub

Terragrunt

• Terragrunt's website
• Terragrunt on GitHub

Mac OS users: Both Terraform and Terragrunt are available through Brew.

Helpful resources from gruntwork.io

• A Comprehensive Guide to Terraform – this is a series of six articles covering the following topics:

  1. Why we use Terraform and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation
  2. An introduction to Terraform
  3. How to manage Terraform state
  4. How to create reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules
  5. Terraform tips & tricks: loops, if-statements, and pitfalls
  6. How to use Terraform as a team

• Reusable, composable, battle-tested Terraform modules

• Infrastructure as Code Library – A collection of reusable, battle-tested, production-ready infrastructure code

Miscellaneous

Infrastructure as Code by Martin Fowler – doesn't specifically mention Terraform, but succinctly lays out the case for dynamic infrastructure.

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Jon Roma and David Riddle
November 1, 2017