About

Author: James Woolfenden

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Bio

I was working as a Principal for Slalom and based out of London, but more recently im with the Bridgecrew. I have a bit of experience in the DevOps field, I have worked for a number of consultancies directly and indirectly.

This is the second of series on Learning about DevOps.

Why

This is small run through of using Hashicorp Terraform. As a consultant I frequently have to train developers and "DevOps" Engineers how, why and when to use it.

I started using Terraform from around version 0.5, I was on a Greenfield AWS project and was really struggling with Cloudformation and its tooling. I asked a question on Linkedin on what others were using and the steers I got were Terraform or Ansible. I achieved more in the day after than in the previous week.

Hopefully you'll find this book useful. If it's missing or wrong in anyway, log an Issue or even submit a PR. Each Chapter also contains a copy of the code the chapter tries to teach you how to create. I originally wrote this for the pre 0.11 Terraform and I hopefully updated everything to 0.12 and all the samples should work.