HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

Pass the Terraform Associate exam and manage IaC to scale across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Ravi Mishra




BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

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Contributors

About the author

Ravi Mishra (born in 1988) is a multi-cloud architect with a decade of experience in the IT industry. He started his career as a network engineer, then later, with time, he got the opportunity to work in the cloud domain, where he worked his hardest to become an expert in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle. Along with the cloud, he has also developed a skillset in DevOps, containerization, Kubernetes, and Terraform. This was what inspired him to write this book.

Ravi has an electronics engineering degree, with a postgraduate diploma in IT project management.

Throughout his career, he has worked with multiple global MNCs.

He has more than 35 cloud certifications, including as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and a public speaker. You can find him on LinkedIn as inmishrar.

Thanks to almighty God, who has given me the power and notion to draft this book.

Special thanks to my wife, Kavita Mishra, for her continued support and encouragement with everything that I do. I genuinely appreciate what you have done for us and I love you.

To my parents, Anil Mishra and Sarita Mishra, for their blessings throughout my life.

To my brother, Ratnesh Mishra, Hamid Raza (my Guru), and the whole Packt team, who helped me during this entire journey.

About the reviewers

Clara McKenzie is currently a support engineer for Terraform at HashiCorp with a long career in software, specializing in networking and embedded platforms. Born in San Francisco, she studied mathematics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work adventures include setting up the NFS/RPC group at Sun Microsystems, the NetWareForMac team at Novell, the Core Software Team at Ascend Communications, the Gracenote SDK Team, and creating test scenarios for Planets Dove Satellites. She goes by the name cemckenzie on GitHub.

Mehdi Laruelle is an automation and cloud consultant. Mehdi has had the opportunity to work for several years for major players in the industry. He has worked with DevOps culture and tools leading him to use HashiCorp software such as Terraform, Vault, and Packer. Knowledge is a passion that he likes to share, whether through training, articles, or meetups. He is the co-organizer of the HashiCorp User Group France meetup. This has led to him being recognized as a HashiCorp Ambassador and AWS Authorized Instructor (AAI).