Terraform Fundamentals for Beginners Training Course
Terraform, created by Hashicorp, is a tool for managing any infrastructure. The IaC tools make managing highly complex, production-grade servers and applications practical, efficient, and even enjoyable.
This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to use Terraform with their infrastructure to plan and build multiple environments.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Install and configure Terraform.
- Implement an infrastructure as code approach to managing IT environments.
- Create, launch, and dismantle infrastructure from within a single tool.
- Write declarative configuration files that can be managed like any other source code in a version control system.
- Quickly update configuration files for effectively responding to changing compute resource needs.
- Collaborate with other infrastructure engineers by sharing configuration files in a common code repository.
- Improve transparency in the infrastructure procurement process.
Format of the Course
- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.
Course Customization Options
- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
Course Outline
Introduction and Setup
- Infrastructure as a Code toolset
- Terraform overview
- Terraform with cloud providers
Terraform Operations
- Terraform commands and examples
- Terraform workflow
Terraform Constructs
- Value types
- Objects
- Functions
- Modules
Terraform Patterns
- Remote state files
- Meta-arguments
- Multiple resources
Terraform Techniques
- Partial configuration
- Code organization
- Automation
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- An understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts
- Terminal (preferred Linux/MacOS, but Windows is acceptable)
- Own GitHub account
- Fundamentals of git source control
Audience
- DevOps engineers
- System administrators
- System architects
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video recording is made available to participants so that we can playback later.
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