Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate (003) Cert Prep

Start your preparations for the highly sought-after Terraform Associate certification (003) by Hashicorp as you learn how to automate and manage infrastructures with Terraform.

Introduction

• Terraform Associate (003) certification
• Exam overview
• Set up your environment and exercise files

1. Understand Infrastructure as a Code (IaC)

• What is infrastructure as a code?
• Introduction to infrastructure as a code with Terraform
• Terraform use cases in public and private cloud

2. Understand the Purpose of Terraform

• Multicloud and provider-agnostic benefits
• Example template to create a virtual network in Azure
• The benefits of Terraform state

3. Understand Terraform Basics

• Install and version Terraform providers
• How Terraform finds and fetches providers
• Plugin-based architecture of Terraform
• Write Terraform configuration using multiple providers

4. Use Terraform Outside the Core Workflow (Import)

• Import existing infrastructure into Terraform state
• Understanding verbose logging
• Enable verbose logging

5. Interact with Terraform Modules

• What is the Terraform module and its uses?
• Publishing modules and uses of Terraform module
• Module source options
• Interact with module inputs and outputs

6. Use the Terraform Core Workflow

• Terraform core workflow
• Steps of the Terraform core workflow
• Use terraform destroy

7. Implement and Maintain Terraform State

• Default local back end
• Benefits and challenges of the default local back end
• Remote state storage
• State locking in Terraform
• Remote state back-end options
• Manage resource drift and Terraform state

8. Read, Generate, and Modify Configuration

• Uses of variables
• Uses of outputs
• Creating Terraform.tfvars file
• Secure secret injection best practice
• Understand the use of collection and structural types
• Create and differentiate resource and data configuration
• Looping and creating multiple instances
• Resource addressing and resource parameters
• HCL and Terraform functions to write configuration
• Create and differentiate resource and data configuration

9. Understand Terraform Cloud Capabilities

• How Terraform Cloud helps to manage infrastructure
• Manage the infrastructure with Terraform Cloud
• Enable collaboration and governance with Terraform Cloud

Conclusion

• Course review
• Next steps