Introduction to Terraform course

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Course Description

This Terraform training course introduces students to the advantages of developing “Infrastructure as Code” with Terraform. This Terraform course uses the AWS provider allowing to manage many AWS cloud resources.

Terraform allows to manage the deployment of different infrastructure types via the appropriate “Provider” plugin. Terraform uses HCL v2 – “HashiCorp Configuration Language” – to define resources to be created for one or more providers.

Students will appreciate the ease with which infrastructure resources are defined in a declarative manner allowing resources to be created, updated or destroyed in an idempotent manner.

Note: the course can be adapted to other AWS services, or other cloud providers.

 

 

Course Outline

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code
•    Infrastructure as Code, Config Management, Idempotence

Terraform
•    Installation
•    Terraform Workflow
•    The plan
•    Applying and re-applying plans
•    Destroying resources
•    Various sub-commands

HCL Configurations
Providers
Variables
Resources

Control Structures
Templates

Data sources
•    Provider Data Sources

State
•    Local State
•    Using “remote state” for working in teams

Modules
•    Modules structure
•    Using modules
•    terraform-aws-modules
•    Terraform Registry
•    Writing your own modules

Provisioners
•    Local-exec
•    File
•    Remote-exec

Importation of foreign resources
•    Importation of resources created outside Terraform
•    terraform import
•    terraforming

Auto-scaling & Load-Balancing
•    AWS EC2 ASG – Autoscaling Groups
•    AWS EC2 ALB – Application Load Balancer

Other AWs resources
•    Lambda
•    VPC, EIP
•    S3, EBS
•    IAM, RDS

Best practices
•    Terraform Best practices
•    Tooling: Linters, scanners, testers

HashiCorp Terraform Eco-system
•    Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise
•    CDK, Waypoint, Boundary

 

Ways to Attend

Attend one of our live online instrucor-led courses. See our schedule for deails.