{ "item_title" : "Terraform on AWS in Practice", "item_author" : [" Victor Ebai "], "item_description" : "Getting infrastructure running is only the beginning. The harder Terraform skill is learning how to change it safely.Terraform on AWS in Practice takes you beyond basic terraform apply workflows and develops the engineering judgement needed to manage AWS infrastructure through change.Rather than treating Terraform as a catalogue of commands, the book develops a repeatable engineering discipline: plan → implement → inspect → change → troubleshoot → recover → verifyYou begin with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code fundamentals, then progressively build real AWS infrastructure while understanding how configuration, state and deployed resources relate. As the environment develops, the emphasis shifts from simply creating resources to managing what happens next: reviewing changes, protecting state, detecting drift, refactoring configurations, automating workflows, diagnosing failures and recovering safely.What you will learnBuild and change practical AWS networking and compute infrastructure with Terraform.Read Terraform plans and understand their consequences before applying them.Create maintainable configurations with variables, outputs, data sources and reusable modules.Protect Terraform state with remote storage, encryption and locking, and understand the role and limitations of workspaces.Refactor infrastructure without unnecessarily recreating existing resources.Detect configuration drift and bring existing AWS resources under Terraform management.Build controlled Terraform CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions and AWS OIDC authentication.Troubleshoot by comparing configuration, state, plans and the real AWS environment.Deliberately expose failures, inspect the evidence, repair the problem and verify recovery.Infrastructure changes. Learn to manage the change.Real infrastructure does not remain exactly as it was when first created. Configuration evolves. Teams refactor code. Pipelines fail. Resources drift. Existing infrastructure may need to be imported, and state must remain trustworthy while all of this happens.The book therefore moves beyond initial provisioning into the Day-2 engineering problems that determine whether Terraform remains predictable as infrastructure evolves.A tested companion learning environmentThe book is fully self-contained and is supported by a public, tested, cumulative, real-AWS companion repository.Rather than presenting disconnected code fragments, the repository follows the book's evolving AWS environment. Readers can inspect the Terraform configurations, architecture, practical labs, verification procedures, safety decisions and GitHub Actions examples used throughout the learning path.The core infrastructure exercises have been tested in AWS, including deployment, configuration changes, drift detection, importing existing resources and recovery. The companion repository also includes tested GitHub Actions workflows for Terraform validation, AWS OIDC authentication and infrastructure planning.The repository supports the book rather than replacing it: the explanations, mental models, implementation steps, verification methods and troubleshooting reasoning remain within the book.Who this book is forThis book is for developers, software engineers, system administrators, DevOps engineers, cloud and platform engineers, students and technical learners who want to move from manually managed or basic Terraform infrastructure towards a disciplined Infrastructure as Code workflow.If you want to move beyond writing Terraform configurations and develop the engineering judgement to plan, change, troubleshoot and recover AWS infrastructure safely, Terraform on AWS in Practice provides a structured, hands-on learning path.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/790/9798167909243_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "29.99", "online_price" : "29.99", "our_price" : "29.99", "club_price" : "29.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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