Learning Terraform

Learn how to use Terraform—the infrastructure as code solution—to configure infrastructure and manage resources with Amazon Web Services.

Introduction

• Learn Terraform for your cloud infrastructure
• What you need

1. First Steps with Terraform

• What is Terraform?
• Your Terraform code repo
• Setting up AWS for Terraform
• Terraform Cloud

2. Terraform in Action

• Terraform plan
• First Terraform run
• How Terraform works
• Terraform states
• Editing your code
• Understanding Terraform errors

3. Infrastructure as Code

• Resources
• Basic resource types
• Terraform style
• Security group
• Using modules
• Terraform registry: Providers
• Terraform registry: Modules

4. Advanced Topics

• Get ready to scale
• Expanding your installation
• Variables
• Split out your data
• Modularize
• Deploying environments
• Cleaning up: Terraform destroy
• Terraform CLI

Conclusion

• Next steps