Overview
Terraform training teaches attendees how to manage the deployment of different infrastructure types, including virtual machines, containers, storage, networking, and policies via the appropriate Provider plugin. In addition, they discover how the Terraform Cloud console provides a common administration portal for managing complex multi-cloud environments across multiple workspaces.
Objectives
At the end of Terraform training course, participants will be able to
Prerequisites
Participants must be at ease working at the command-line, understand Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as EC2 or S3, and have experience using an SSH Client, such as OpenSSH on Linux, macOS or WSL, or PuTTY on Windows.
Course Outline
- Infrastructure as Code, Config Management, Idempotence
- Terraform & Terraform Cloud
- Introduction to Terraform Cloud
- Local installation of the Terraform command-line tool
- The plan
- Applying and re-applying plans
- Destroying resources
- Various sub-commands
- Variables, passing values to the configuration, Locals
- Basic and complex types
- Terraform client use of Local State
- Terraform Cloud “remote state” and workspaces for collaborating in teams
- Rolling back state to a previous revision
- Modules structure
- Using modules
- Terraform Registry
- Writing your own modules
- Importation of resources created outside Terraform
- terraform import
- terraforming
- AWS EC2 ASG – Autoscaling Groups
- AWS EC2 ALB – Application Load Balancer
- Standing up an AWS EKS (Kubernetes) Cluster
- Managing day2 operations with Terraform
- Using Terraform to manage EKS resources
- Terraform Best practices
- 3rd-party Tooling: Linters, scanners, testers
- Terraform Enterprise
- CDK
- Waypoint, Boundary
- Certification