Course: Terraform Basics Training Course

Notes for the Terraform Basics Training Course course: 57 lessons across 12 sections.

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Introduction

• Course Introduction

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Introduction to Infrastructure as Code

• Challenges with Traditional IT Infrastructure
• Types of IAC Tools
• Why Terraform

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Getting Started with Terraform

• Installing Terraform
• HashiCorp Configuration Language HCL Basics
• Update and Destroy Infrastructure

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Terraform Basics

• Using Terraform Providers
• Configuration Directory
• Multiple Providers
• Using Input Variables
• Understanding the Variable Block
• Using Variables in Terraform
• Resource Attributes
• Resource Dependencies
• Output Variables

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Terraform State

• Introduction to Terraform State
• Purpose of State
• Terraform State Considerations

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Working with Terraform

• Terraform Commands
• Mutable vs Immutable Infrastructure
• LifeCycle Rules
• Datasources
• Meta Arguments
• Count
• for each
• Version Constraints

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Terraform with AWS

• Getting Started with AWS
• Demo Setup an AWS Account
• Introduction to IAM
• Demo IAM
• Programmatic Access
• AWS IAM with Terraform
• IAM Policies with Terraform
• Introduction to AWS S3
• S3 with Terraform
• Introduction to DynamoDB
• Demo Dynamodb
• DynamoDB with Terraform

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Remote State

• What is Remote State and State Locking
• Remote Backends with S3
• Terraform State Commands

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Terraform Provisioners

• Introduction to AWS EC2 optional
• Demo Deploying an EC2 Instance optional
• AWS EC2 with Terraform
• Terraform Provisioners
• Provisioner Behaviour
• Considerations with Provisioners

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Terraform Import, Tainting Resources and Debugging

• Terraform Taint
• Debugging
• Terraform Import

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Terraform Modules

• What are modules
• Creating and Using a Module
• Using Modules from the Registry

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Terraform Functions and Conditional Expressions

• More Terraform Functions
• Conditional Expressions
• Terraform Workspaces OSS