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This class is designed to teach DevOps engineers, Production Support staff and developers how to effectively use Terraform to manage infrastructure in a cloud environment. The course covers the best practices around the concept of infrastructure as code and then introduces how this can be best be applied using Terraform.

Course Duration

3 days

Who it is for

Developers, Devops engineers, cloud architects

Prerequisites

  • Basic AWS Cloud Skills would be beneficial

  • Basic understanding of deployment practices would be beneficial

Objectives

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

Course Contents

Infrastructure as Code and Automated Deployments

  • What is IaC

  • Approaches to IaC

  • Terraform, Cloudformation, SAM and others

Infrastructure in Source Control -- Git

  • Introduction to Git

  • Working with Git in the Enterprise

  • Maintaining IaC in Git

  • Triggering pipelines from Git hooks

Effective Git Usage

  • Working with a local Git repository

  • Working with a remote git repository

  • Effective use of branching

  • Handling conflicts

  • Git best practices and pull requests

IaC and DevOps

  • Performing automated deployments

  • Blue / Green

  • Canary

  • In place rolling updates

Terraform Fundamentals

  • Understanding how Terraform Works

  • Setting up Terraform

  • Deploying a single server using Terraform

  • Deploying a load balanced cluster of servers using Terraform

Understanding the Terraform Language HCL

  • Arguments and Blocks

  • Identifiers

  • Comments

  • Encoding

  • JSON syntax

  • Style conventions

Terraform Datatypes

  • Working with strings and numbers

  • Working with collection types

  • Working with object types

  • Using variables as input and output values

Terraform Functions

  • String and number functions

  • Collection related functions

  • Security related functions

  • Network related functions

  • File system and date related functions

Terraform Constructs

  • Looping with for_each

  • Working with counters

  • The significance of depends_on

  • Working with different Providers

  • Using Meta-arguments

The Terraform CLI

  • Understanding the core commands

  • Validating using validate

  • Using init, plan and apply

Working with Terraform Modules

  • Using registry based modules

  • Creating custom modules

  • Publishing custom modules to a registry

Managing State using Terraform

  • How do you know what you have

  • Maintaining a registry of resources

  • The Terraform enterprise solution

  • Deploying, tracking and updating deployments using Terraform enterprise

Configuration Management with Ansible

  • Introduction to Configuration management tools

  • Automating configuration using Ansible

  • Configuring servers using Ansible

  • Deploying an updated application using Ansible

When to use Ansible or Terraform

  • What should generally be done in Terraform

  • What should generally done using Ansible

  • Combining Terraform and Ansible

Extended Project

  • You are provided a sample Spring/React fullstack application

  • Deploy this application to AWS using either containers or EC2

  • Set up an appropriate pipeline for updates to be deployed