Course Outline

Introduction

  • How is Terraform different from Chef, Puppet, Ansible and Salt?
  • Why not AWS Management Console?

Overview of Terraform Features and Architecture

  • Infrastructure as Code, execution plans, resource graphs, change automation

Terraform Workflow

  • Write, Preview, Create, Reproduce, Destroy

Getting Started

  • Preparing an AWS account to use with Terraform
  • Initializing Terraform

Preparing an Execution Plan

  • Writing a new plan, saving, and removing .tf files

Working with Configuration Files

  • Syntax overview
  • Writing, version controlling, and updating

Setting Resource Dependencies

  • Using the Terraform Resource Graph
  • Infrastructure vs application dependencies

Deploying Infrastructure

  • Previewing configuration changes
  • Executing changes

Managing State

  • Configuring a backend using AWS S3 and AWS DynamoDB

Reproducing Infrastructure

  • Setting up the environment for an application: dev, test/qa, stage, and prod

Packaging Configuration Files as Modules

  • Duplicating code with shareable modules
  • Using the Module Registry to build reusable templates

Integrating Terraform into a Deployment Pipeline

  • Building, deploying, and testing an application
  • Importing existing external resources into Terraform

Terraform Performance Tuning

  • Infrastructure monitoring and performance metrics

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion

Requirements

  • Experience working with a command line.
  • An understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts.

Audience

  • Cloud architects
  • System administrators
  • DevOps engineers
  21 Hours
 

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