Terraform Training
Level
AdvancedDuration
24h / 3 dayDate
Individually arrangedPrice
Individually arrangedTerraform Training
Discover the leading tool for managing public cloud environments (and more) – Terraform – and take infrastructure management to the next level! This course not only covers the basics of using Terraform but also provides practical knowledge on best practices, teamwork, and automation with Terraform.
What You Will Learn
- Terraform fundamentals
- How to prepare your environment for efficient and convenient Terraform project development
- Creating, modifying, and deleting resources in Terraform
- Code modularization techniques to ensure reusability across projects
- What Terraform state is and how to perform advanced operations on it
- How Terraform manages dependencies and how to leverage this to build advanced solutions
- How to dynamically create resources and parameterize your modules
- How to integrate Terraform with existing infrastructure
- How to manage database objects, proving Terraform can be used beyond public clouds
- Best practices and additional tools that improve code quality
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of Terraform
- Training level: Intermediate
Who is this training for?
Professionals working with public cloud who want to simplify their work through automation-
Companies using multiple cloud providers
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Those who want to unify infrastructure management processes
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Especially developers and DevOps engineers
Training Program
- Module 1 – Introduction to Infrastructure as Code
- What is IaC?
- IaC tools overview
- Terraform fundamentals
- Module 2 – Installing Terraform
- Terraform installation
- Initial configuration
- Module 3 – Terraform Basics
- Directory and file structure
- Terraform State and Backends
- Terraform Providers
- Resource and data blocks
- Using the Local provider to manage local resources
- Basic collection operations with for_each and count
- Module 4 – State Management
- Local state
- GCP
- Module 5 – Configuring a remote backend with GCP
- Creating resources
- Using a remote backend in a project
- Module 6 – Project: Creating a virtual machine for an HTTP server
- Using the GCP provider and remote backend
- Creating a pre-configured VM with Load Balancer and firewall
- Additionally using TLS, Template, and Random providers
- Module 7 – Creating reusable local modules in Terraform
- Defining and declaring local modules in Terraform
- Using variables and outputs
- Modularizing the completed project
- Module 8 – Creating a reusable GKE cluster module
- Defining all resources with Terraform
- Initial cluster configuration with the Kubernetes provider
- Creating namespaces
- Configuring RBAC
- Best practices for using variables, locals, and data blocks
- Defining all resources with Terraform
- Module 9 – Terraform Deep-Dive
- Meta-arguments
- Functions
- Module 10 – Design Patterns
- Secrets Facility
- Module Composition
- Infrastructure Layering
- Delegate Pattern
- Module 11 – Large-scale Terraform implementation – best practices
- Managing IaC repositories
- Building pipelines
- Managing complex configurations
- Module 12 – Additional tools and their usage
- tfenv
- pre-commit
- terragrunt
- terraform console
- tflint
