This document provides an overview of deploying infrastructure using Terraform. It introduces Terraform as an open-source tool for infrastructure as code that allows defining and provisioning infrastructure in a consistent, repeatable and collaborative way. The document covers Terraform concepts like providers, resources, state and the lifecycle of initializing, planning, applying and destroying infrastructure. It also includes instructions for setting up Terraform on Mac and Linux workstations and a demo of provisioning a web server infrastructure on Google Cloud.

1. Deploying Infrastructure using
Terraform
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2. About Me
IT Consultant with 11+ years of experience in Big Data, Cloud & DevOps
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4. Agenda
● Infrastructure Automation
● Introduction to Terraform
● Workstation setup
● Demo: Provision resources
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5. Building & managing infrastructure using scripts, code with no-human or
minimal intervention
Infrastructure Automation
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Faster delivery Improved Reliability Reduced cost Collaboration
Terraform Chef Puppet Salt

6. An approach to manage Systems, Networks or any other Infrastructure objects
through source code
Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
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Consistent Repeatable Change Collaboration

7. Terraform
Terraform allows to build, change and version our infrastructure in an easy and
efficient way.
terraform.io
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8. Open Source
● Open Source and written in golang
github.com/hashicorp/terraform
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9. Terraform features
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Platform agnostic State management Infer dependencies
Execution plan Resource graph Parallel execution

10. Concepts
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11. Plugin to translate API interaction with the service
Authenticate Terraform against Service
Provider
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Provider Name
Attributes

12. Providers
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35official
200+ verified
and many more community providers…
Ref: https://registry.terraform.io/browse/providers

13. Describe infrastructure object(s)
Resource
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Resource type
Attributes

14. Read infrastructure information
Data Source
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Name
Arguments

15. Stores information about infrastructure created by Terraform code
○ Local: Stores on local filesystem
○ Remote: Stores on remote storage
■ GCS
■ S3
■ Consul
■ ….
State
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16. Lifecycle
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17. Write Code
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18. Initialize (terraform init)
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19. Execution Plan (terraform plan)
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20. Apply (terraform apply)
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21. Cleanup (terraform destroy)
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22. Workstation
Setup
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23. Terraform Setup (Mac Users)
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Blog: Getting started with Terraform

24. Terraform Setup (Linux Users)
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Blog: Getting started with Terraform

25. gcloud setup
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Blog: Getting started with Google Cloud SDK

26. Architecture Diagram

27. Demo
https://github.com/pradeepbhadani/terraform-webserver
Photo by Chris Ried on Unsplash

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