Terraform Essentials

Audience:

This course is designed for DevOps Engineers, Software Developers, Technical Managers and Leads, System and Cloud Administrators, and Network Engineers and Developers.

Prerequisites:

Although not required, students with some experience programming or pre-existing knowledge of cloud architecture will most appreciate the technical nature of this hands-on course.

Course Description:

As enterprises seek to deploy and maintain increasingly complex cloud infrastructure, there is a necessity to use “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC) tools, like Terraform. An open-source, state management tool developed by HashiCorp, Terraform allows developers to use a common coding interface to work through their various clouds safely and efficiently. Attendees will leave being able to write and understand Terraform code (HCL), have a clear understanding of Terraform’s various components and supporting tools, as well as when to reach for Terraform over another IaC tool, such as Ansible.

Course Objectives:

In this course, you will: 

• Writing Terraform HCL code
• Deploying into common clouds such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, Oracle, Kubernetes, and VMWare
• Where Terraform fits in the Enterprise CI/CD model
• Differences between Terraform and Ansible
• Best practices
• Prepare for HashiCorp’s Terraform Associate Certification
• AI LLM prompt engineering for Terraform snippets and jumpstarting solutions