Course Overview:
Systems Administrators and DevOp Engineers have always been charged to do more with less. Defining infrastructure in code and automating its deployment helps improve operational efficiency and lower administrative overhead. In this course, Terraform – Getting Started, you’ll learn foundational knowledge of Hashicorp’s Terraform software, a toolset for infrastructure automation.
First, you’ll discover how to create and update a basic configuration. Next, you’ll explore how to use provisioners, functions, and providers to expand your deployment. Finally, you’ll learn how to leverage abstraction and improve code reuse with variables, state files, and modules. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Terraform needed to write, plan, and create automated infrastructure deployments.
Course Objectives:
- Understand, use and apply terraform
- Know when to use different features
- Use terraform with AWS
- Use terraform with Packer to create custom images
- Be able to apply DevOps techniques using terraform
Pre-requisites:
- This course is great if you’re in an Ops or DevOps position and you want to learn about automation using
Target Audience:
- To be able to do the demos yourself, you should have an AWS account. You can open one for free and I explain how to open one in the
Course Duration:
- 21 hours – 3 days
Course Content:
Module 1: Deploying your first configuration
- Terraform Components
- Demo Time
Module 2: Updating configuration with more Resources
- Terraform state and Update
- Data type and security group
- Demo Time
Module 3: Configuring Resources after Configuration
- Terraform Provisioners
- Terraform Syntax
- Demo time
Module 4: Adding new Provider to Configuration
- Terraform Providers
- Terraform Functions
- Demo: intro and variable Demo: Resource Creation
Module 5: Using Variables in Deployments and Module
- Working with Variables
- Multiple Environments
- Deploying DEV environment
- Deploying UAT environment
- Terraform Modules
- Demo Time
Terraform Advanced
Module 6: Terraform with AWS
- Introduction to VPCs
- Introduction to VPCs – Part II
- Introduction to terraform – Part III
- Demo: VPCs and NAT
- Launching EC2 instances in the VPC
- Demo: Launching instances in a VPC
- EBS Volumes
- Demo: EBS volumes
- Userdata
- Demo: Userdata
- Static IPs, EIPs, and Route53
- Demo: Route53
- RDS
- Demo: RDS
- IAM
- Demo: IAM users and groups
- IAM Roles
- Demo: IAM Roles
- Autoscaling
- Demo: Autoscaling
- Introduction to Elastic Load Balancers (ELB)
- ELBs in terraform
- Demo: ELB with autoscaling
- Application Load Balancer (ALB)
- Elastic Beanstalk
- Demo: Elastic Beanstalk
Module 7: Packer
- Packer Introduction
- Demo- Packer with Terraform
- Terraform with Packer and Jenkins
