Course Outline
Terraform Core Concepts Review
- The CLI and all available sub-commands.
- The workflow of Terraform operations.
- State management and its importance (including its fragility).
- HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), covering versions before and after 0.12.
Designing More Complex Terraform Projects and Modules
- Approaches to Modularization
- Single-project, multi-module scenarios.
- Multi-project related infrastructure across single and hybrid cloud or platform environments.
- Root module decomposition
- Working with both new and legacy monolithic projects, with a focus on thoughtful Terraform project organization.
Developing and Managing More Complex Terraform Projects and Modules
- Comprehensive best practices.
- Module versioning.
- Emphasizing DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principles.
- Handling complex provider scenarios across projects and modules.
- Introduction to Terraform Null Label and its utility.
An Introduction to Make + Makefile
- Automate repetitive tasks in Terraform projects using a reliable, standard Linux tool.
Advanced Terraform Tool and CLI Understanding
- Deep dive into state and the state file.
- State migration and management in complex scenarios.
- Terraform import approaches in complex scenarios.
- Addressing mistakes and messes
- Handling uncontrolled drift.
- Recovering from corrupted or irreparable state files.
- Identifying scenarios that cannot be fixed.
- Proactively ensuring you avoid these situations with Terraform.
Advanced HCL Topics
- Advanced configuration language expression features:
- Approaches to re-usability.
- Loops and meta-arguments.
- For expressions.
- Type handling in the context of expressions.
Hardening Security for Terraform
- Shifting left on Terraform security and adopting defense-in-depth strategies.
- State file security considerations.
- Managing credentials and secrets: implementing least privilege, rotation, and protection.
- Identifying where and how security can break down in Terraform workflows.
Infrastructure Reliability and Testing
- Overview of currently available automated and manual testing frameworks and methods
- The current landscape leaves much to be desired (e.g., TestInfra / Terratest).
- Managing drift and mitigating unexpected consequences in realistic scenarios.
- Balancing developer responsibility with automated testing, including git hooks for validation, terraform-pre-commit, etc.
Automating Terraform and Terraform in Pipelines
- Integrating Terraform with Spinnaker.
- Utilizing automated delivery pipelines to enhance quality assurance, stability, and reliability of infrastructure and Terraform deployments.
- Terraform and GitOps: Approaches to adopting GitOps within Terraform workflows.
- Overview of Terraform Cloud and Enterprise, exploring how these offerings improve Terraform workflows and examining other tools/processes that serve similar needs, such as custom CI/CD pipelines for Terraform and tools like Atlantis.
Complex AWS Infrastructure with Terraform
- Designing and deploying VPCs with Terraform.
- Managing EC2 instances and other compute resources.
- Configuring AWS networking components.
- Integrating AWS services into Terraform-managed infrastructure.
- Implementing security best practices for AWS resources.
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- A solid understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts.
- Basic hands-on experience with Terraform operations.
Audience
- DevOps engineers.
- System administrators.
- System architects.
Testimonials (6)
The trainer was very knowledgeable and easy to talk to, he helped with troubleshooting issues for some of the participants and answered all the questions. Course material was good and had a lot of examples.
Vlad
Course - Advanced Terraform - 3 Days
I liked the fact that the trainer was willing to help us on the debugging side.
Diana
Course - Advanced Terraform - 3 Days
I liked it very much, I appreciate the fact that Vicenzo took the time to answer all the questions and troubleshoot the existing error messages
Mihai
Course - Advanced Terraform - 3 Days
The subjects that were brought were interesting.
Razvan
Course - Advanced Terraform - 3 Days
Vincenzo provided support to troubleshoot different scenarios and also helped with examples.
Stelian
Course - Advanced Terraform - 3 Days
It clarified some of the things I didn't know about terraform.
