Introduction. What Is Terraform?

• How we got to the DevOps era
• A quick glance at Terraform

Positioning Terraform

• Defining Infrastructure as Code
• Scripts
• Configuration management tools
• Server templating tools
• Server provisioning tools
• Comparing Terraform to other tools

Terraform Architecture

• Terraform language paradigm
• Workflow overview
• Environment parity
• Cloud Providers
• How Terraform works

Hands-on Lab: Environment set-up

Installation and Getting Started

• Preparing the environment with examples for Linux, Windows and MacOS
• Major code elements in Terraform configuration files

Hands-on Lab: Installing Terraform

Terraform Configurations Overview

• Configuring providers
• Preparing authentication credentials
• Regions and Availability Zones/Domains
• Deploying a server in AWS
• Updating an existing server
• Deploying a virtual network in OCI
• Inputs and outputs

Hands-on Lab: Working with variables

Providers, Resources and More

• Managing providers and versions
• Working with multiple identical providers in multiple regions
• More resource creation examples
• Decommissioning virtual infrastructure

Hands-on Lab: Providers and data sources

Post Configuration, Syntax

• Post-configuration tools: provisioners
• Provisioners types, usage, behaviors
• Functions in HCL
• The Terraform Console
• Recreating common construct behaviors: loops, conditionals

Hands-on Lab: Virtual instance resources

Terraform States

• Terraform states overview
• Analyzing the contents of state files
• Sharing state files
• Securing and locking shared state files
• Read-only state

Hands-on Lab: Additional virtual resources

Using modules

• Module basics
• Module inputs
• Module outputs
• Modules and paths
• Module usage best practices
• Adding and initializing modules from various sources

Hands-on Lab: Provisioners

Using Variables

• Variables, variables, variables
• Variables stored in files
• Environment variables
• Securing variables

Tips and Tricks

• Miscellaneous helpful tips
• Command-line options that lend a hand in writing IaC
• Code options for better control of the infrastructure