Terraform on AWS in Practice

di Victor Ebai (Autore)

victor Ebai, 2026

Terraform on AWS in Practice is a practical guide to building, changing, automating, and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure safely with Terraform. Rather than treating Terraform as a collection of commands, this book teaches a disciplined way to manage infrastructure change. You will learn how to read plans before applying them, understand why Terraform proposes replacements, protect state, detect drift, recover from failed changes, and bring existing AWS resources under Terraform management. Using a progressive AWS lab, you will work with VPCs, public and private subnets, route tables, EC2, IAM, security groups, S3 remote state, data sources, workspaces, modules, and CI/CD. You will learn how to: Build AWS infrastructure with clean, reusable Terraform configuration Use variables, locals, outputs, count, and for_each Read Terraform plans and understand create, update, replace, and destroy actions Protect Terraform state with S3, versioning, encryption, and state locking Use data sources to discover AWS information dynamically Understand what Terraform workspaces do—and what they do not do Refactor infrastructure safely into reusable modules with moved blocks Run Terraform through CI/CD using GitHub Actions and AWS OIDC authentication Diagnose drift using the Configuration–State–AWS model Import existing AWS resources into Terraform Recover methodically from failed applies and state problems Apply secure AWS practices including Session Manager, IMDSv2, encrypted storage, and least-privilege access Complete a practical capstone that builds, changes, breaks, diagnoses, and recovers an AWS environment The focus throughout is practical decision-making: understand what Terraform intends to do, review the evidence, make the change deliberately, and verify the result. Terraform on AWS in Practice is designed for DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, infrastructure engineers, platform engineers, and developers who want to move beyond basic Terraform syntax and manage AWS infrastructure with greater confidence and control.

• Autore: Victor Ebai
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: victor Ebai
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237866438