Название: Reverse Engineering with Terraform: An Introduction to Infrastructure Automation, Integration, and Scalability using Terraform
Автор: Sumit Bhatia, Chetan Gabhane
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2024
Страниц: 288
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub (true)
Размер: 12.0 MB

This book is a comprehensive guide for employing Terraform in infrastructure as code automation, and its application to infrastructure operations.

Reverse Engineering with Terraform begins with an introduction to Terraform’s core functionalities, including state files, configuration files, and providers, followed by a deep dive into the tool. You’ll then learn how to pinpoint problems with Terraform automation and how reverse engineering can help you resolve them. Drilling down, authors Sumit Bhatia and Chetan Gabhane walk you through the various steps in reverse engineering with an eye towards more effective Terraform integration with preexisting and legacy IT infrastructure.

Using a real-world reverse engineering example, they demonstrate how to import a preexisting resource into your infrastructure, which can help you develop an automatable and scalable method for Terrraform adoption. You’ll also learn how to create reusable, shareable components to streamline infrastructure code and foster collaboration within teams, and advanced techniques for using Terraform to optimize infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management.

These are areas where Terraform has a unique presence in infrastructure automation practices. Terraform has enabled infrastructure admins to define their key infrastructure entities as code that is easy to write and manage. Terraform has built-in integrations with numerous popular public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as on-prem technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, etc. With help from Terraform, infrastructure admins can now easily provision and manage their infrastructure.

To further strengthen your understanding of reverse engineering, we will introduce you to a sample use case in which we will build a sample model to work with existing VMware virtual machines. Finally, in the hands-on exercise, we will present some sample Python logic to programmatically fetch point-in-time VMware VM object values, which lays the foundation for reverse engineering.

Filled with real-world case studies, tips and tricks, and best practices, this book will leave you with a thorough understanding of the infrastructure as code paradigm, and how to leverage Terraform automation with legacy as well as modern IT infrastructure.

What You Will Learn:
Understand Terraform and its infrastructure automation capabilities
Explore how Terraform can be used with other platforms like AWS, Azure and VMware
Master the basic concepts of reverse engineering for legacy infrastructure entities
Enable Terraform in legacy IT environments through reverse engineering

Who This Book Is For:
IT architects, admins, technical managers, and infrastructure solution experts. Minimal knowledge of Python programming is the only prerequisite.