Terraform Basic to Advanced Training Course
Course overview
Systems Administrators and DevOp Engineers have always been charged to do more with less. Defining infrastructure in code and automating its deployment helps improve operational efficiency and lower administrative overhead. In this course, Terraform – Getting Started, you’ll learn foundational knowledge of Hashicorp’s Terraform software, a toolset for infrastructure automation.
First, you’ll discover how to create and update a basic configuration. Next, you’ll explore how to use provisioners, functions, and providers to expand your deployment. Finally, you’ll learn how to leverage abstraction and improve code reuse with variables, state files, and modules. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Terraform needed to write, plan, and create automated infrastructure deployments.
Course Duration
3 Days
Cost
Objectives
- Understand, use and apply
- terraform
- Know when to use different
- features
- Use terraform with AWS
- Use terraform with Packer to
- create custom images
- Be able to apply DevOps
- techniques using terraform
Audience
This course is great if you’re in an Ops or DevOps position and you want to learn about automation using terraform.
Prerequisites
To be able to do the demos yourself, you should have an AWS account. You can open one for free and I explain how to open one in the course.
Course Content
Terraform Basics
Module 1: Deploying your first configuration
Terraform Components
Demo Time
Module 2: Updating configuration with more Resources
Terraform state and Update
Data type and security group
Demo Time
Module 3: Configuring Resources after Configuration
Terraform Provisioners
Terraform Syntax
Demo time
Module 4 : Adding new Provider to Configuration
Terraform Providers
Terraform Functions
Demo: intro and variable Demo: Resource Creation
Module 5: Using Variables in Deployments and Module
Working with Variables
Multiple Environments
Terraform Modules
Demo Time
Module 6: AWS Cloud Formation Templates ( CFT )
Why do we use AWS Cloud Formation?
What is AWS Cloud Formation?
How does AWS Cloud Formation work?
AWS Cloud Formation concepts such as
– AWS Cloud Formation template,
– AWS Cloud Formation stack
Cloud Formation access control.
Use-case implementation showing how to create a deployable template.