HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) Cert Prep by KodeKloud

This course covers the fundamentals and essential skills needed to fully prepare for the Terraform Associate (003) certification exam from HashiCorp.

Introduction

• Course introduction
• Certification details

1. Understand Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Concepts

• Recap IAC
• Installing Terraform and HCL basics
• Create, update, and destroy infrastructure

2. Terraform Provider Basics

• Recap using Terraform providers
• Multiple providers
• Version constraints
• Aliases

3. Variables, Resource Attributes, and Dependencies

• Recap: Variables
• Using variables
• Output variables
• Resource attributes and dependencies
• Resource targeting
• Data sources

4. Terraform State

• Terraform state
• Remote state

5. Read, Generate, and Modify Configuration

• Count and for each
• Provisioners
• Builtin functions
• Operators and conditional expressions
• Local values
• Dynamic blocks and splat expressions

6. Use the Terraform CLI

• Basic Terraform commands
• Lifecycle rules
• Terraform taint
• Logging
• Terraform import
• Terraform workspace

7. Terraform Modules

• Terraform modules
• Creating a module

8. Terraform Cloud

• Terraform Cloud introduction
• Terraform Cloud plans
• Terraform Cloud demo