The Terraform Book

Infrastructure as Code

by James Turnbull

A hands-on, introductory book about managing infrastructure with HashiCorp's Terraform tool. Start small and then build on what you learn to scale up to complex infrastructure. Written for both developers and sysadmins. Focuses on how to build, test and run infrastructure and applications with Terraform and integration with tools like Consul.

This book is no longer available for purchase.

What's in the book

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Terraform
Chapter 2: Installing Terraform
Chapter 3: Building our first application
Chapter 4: Provisioning and Terraform
Chapter 5: Collaborating with Terraform
Chapter 6: Building a multi-environment architecture
Chapter 7: Infrastructure testing

This book has been retired

The Terraform Book is no longer available for purchase. Given the age of the book and how much Terraform has changed, it no longer reflects current best practices.

Thank you to everyone who bought and supported the book over the years. It means a lot.

The book was last updated for Terraform version 0.13. You can find errata here.