Terraform: Managing Network Infrastructure

Learn how to use Terraform to configure, automate, and manage cloud-based networking infrastructure.

Introduction

• Network management in the cloud
• What you need to know

1. Terraform Basics

• Terraform's composition
• Understanding Terraform state
• Manual exploration leads to good Terraform code
• Terraform configuration language basics
• Setting up your Terraform Repo

2. Foundational Networking in AWS with Terraform

• Creating a bare minimum VPC with Terraform
• Looping over subnets with Terraform count
• Using Terraform to provision EC2 instances
• Building public subnets in AWS with Terraform
• Building private subnets in AWS with Terraform

3. Advanced Networking in AWS with Terraform

• Using Terraform to expand our infrastructure footprint
• Routing traffic between VPCs using Terraform and VPC peering
• Scaling the network with Terraform and Transit Gateway
• Using segmentation with Transit Gateway and Terraform

Conclusion

• What comes next?