Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Define, provision and manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, using reusable modules and safe team workflows.

Infrastructure as CodeIntermediate

About this course

Infrastructure as code turns manual, error-prone setup into something versioned, reviewed and repeatable. This course teaches Terraform from the ground up and then moves on to the structure and workflows needed for real projects.

What you will learn

Explain the benefits and principles of infrastructure as code
Write Terraform configurations for cloud resources
Manage state safely, including remote state
Create reusable modules
Apply a plan-and-review workflow suitable for teams

Curriculum

01Infrastructure as codeWhy and how.
- Declarative configuration
- The Terraform workflow
02Terraform languageWriting configurations.
- Providers and resources
- Variables and outputs
- Expressions and functions
03StateHow Terraform tracks reality.
- Local and remote state
- State locking
- Importing existing resources
04ModulesBuilding reusable components.
- Module structure
- Inputs and outputs
- Versioning
05Working in teamsSafe change at scale.
- Environments
- Plan reviews
- Running Terraform in pipelines

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of a cloud platform such as AWS
Comfort with the command line

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