Akhilesh Mishra
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Chapter 12: Terraform Best Practices and Standards
Time to upgrade from a Terraform user to a Terraform practitioner.
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Chapter 11: Workspaces, Null Resources, and Lifecycle Rules
You’ve learned the basics. Now let’s talk about three advanced patterns that separate beginners from practitioners: managing multiple environments elegantly, running actions that aren’t tied to resources, and controlling how Terraform handles resource changes.
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Chapter 10: Terraform Functions: Your Code’s Swiss Army Knife
Use the function feature to manipulate data, strings, numbers, and collections.
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Chapter 9: Provisioners and Import
Handle existing infrastructure, migration strategies, provisioners.
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Chapter 8: Terraform Modules: Building Blocks You Can Reuse Everywhere
Learn how to design, use, and structure modules like real production setups. Reuse isb the key here.
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Chapter 7: Dynamic Blocks in Terraform
Create flexible and advanced configurations using dynamic blocks.
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Chapter 6: Count, For_Each, and Conditionals
Dynamic infrastructure with loops, conditional logic, and scalable configuration patterns.
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Chapter 5: Resources, Data Sources, and Dependencies
Understand how Terraform actually builds infrastructure graphs and manages dependencies.
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Chapter 4: Terraform State and Providers
Dive deep into state files, provider configuration, remote state, and dangers of bad state handling.
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Chapter 3: Terraform Variables and Locals
Hardcoding values works for demos, not production. Variables make your code flexible. Locals make it DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself).
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Chapter 2: Getting Started - Your First Steps
Ready to jump in? Here’s how to get started with Terraform
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Chapter 1: Infrastructure as Code - Here We Go
Before we get to Terraform, let me take you back in time so we understand why Terraform exist at first place.
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Learn Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
Learn Terraform from scratch with a Linux-first approach. Master Infrastructure as Code concepts, modules, state, best practices, and real-world workflows.
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