Overview
The first book on the Hashicorp Language (HCL)
Covers cloud computing, DevOps, and related subjects
Written by an industry expert
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
Get started with programming and using the Hashicorp Language (HCL). This book introduces you to the HCL syntax and its ecosystem then it shows you how to integrate it as part of an overall DevOps approach.
Next, you’ll learn how to implement infrastructure as code, specifically, using the Terraform template, a set of cloud infrastructure automation tools. As part of this discussion, you’ll cover Consul, a service mesh solution providing a full-featured control plane with service discovery, configuration, and segmentation functionality. You’ll integrate these with Vault to build HCL-based infrastructure as code solutions.
Finally, you’ll use Jenkins and HCL to provision and maintain the infrastructure as code system. After reading and using Beginning HCL Programming, you'll have the know-how and source code to get started with flexible HCL for all your cloud and DevOps needs.
What You Will Learn
- Get started with programming and using HCL
- Use Vault, Consul, and Terraform
- Apply HCL to infrastructure as code Define the Terraform template with HCL
- Configure Consul using HCL
- Use HCL to configure Vault
- Provision and maintain infrastructure as code using Jenkins and HCL
Who This Book Is For
Anyone new to HCL but who does have at least some prior programming experience as well as knowledge of DevOps in general.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
David Flynn is an Associate Analyst in Employee Access Business Operations at Mastercard. He is an Electronic Engineer with experience in telecommunications, networks, software, security and Financial Systems. David started out as a Telecommunications Engineer working on Voice, data and wireless systems for Energis and later Nortel Networks supporting systems such as Lucent G3r, Alcatel E10 & Nortel Passport. He then did some time in Transport and Private security abroad before retraining in Computing, Cyber Security and Cloud Systems plus doing Cyber Security & Telecomm research for the Civil Service. He has completed separate Diplomas in Computing and Cloud focusing on Windows, C# , Google, AWS and Powershell amongst other technologies. David also has worked as a C# Engineer. More recently David has worked for various fintech companies including Bank Of America Merril Lynch focusing on technical & Application Support encompassing such technologies as Rsa Igl, Rsa SecurID, IBM Tam/Isam, Postgres/Oracle databases, Mainframe, Tandem, CyberArk, MaxPro and Active Directory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning HCL Programming
Book Subtitle: Using Hashicorp Language for Automation and Configuration
Authors: Pierluigi Riti, David Flynn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6634-2
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Pierluigi Riti and David Flynn 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6633-5Published: 12 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6634-2Published: 11 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 183
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Programming Techniques