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Gain insights into Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, sharpen your skills, and prepare for the HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification in a cloud-agnostic way.

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This course is designed to help learners obtain the Terraform Associate certification from HashiCorp. You’ve likely picked up this course because you dabbled in Terraform as a hobbyist or in a development environment, and you’re excited about the possibilities of deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC). It will enable you to sharpen your skills and prove your knowledge with a certification from HashiCorp. Terraform is an amazing tool to deploy Infrastructure as Code in a cloud-agnostic way. We’re excited to share our accumulated knowledge with you through this course.

This course is designed to help learners obtain the Terraform Associate certification from HashiCorp. You’ve likely picked up ...Show More

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Infrastructure as Code

Hybrid Cloud Deployment

Cloud Agnostic Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure as Code

Content

62 Lessons7 Quizzes

Introduction to the Course

2 Lessons

Get familiar with Terraform to enhance IaC skills for certification with practical guidance.

Getting Started

Course Overview

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code

6 Lessons

Look at how Infrastructure as Code (IaC) revolutionizes infrastructure automation, using Terraform's HCL for multi-cloud deployments.

What is Infrastructure as Code?

Introduction to Terraform HCL

Advantages of IaC Patterns

Multi-cloud and Provider-agnostic

Benefits of State

Quiz on Introduction to IaC

Basics of Terraform

4 Lessons

Examine Terraform’s plugin architecture, provider management, and use of provisioners for resource operations.

Plugin-based Architecture

How Terraform Finds and Fetches Providers

Using Provisioners, local-exec, or remote-exec

Quiz on Basics of Terraform

Outside the Workflow: Using the Terraform CLI

13 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of using the Terraform CLI, commands, workspaces, and state management.

Using the Help System

Formatting the Code

The terraform taint command

Importing an Existing Infrastructure

Creating Workspaces

Using Workspaces

Listing Resources within Terraform State

Moving Items in Terraform State

Downloading and Uploading the State File

Removing Items from Terraform State

Viewing Resource Attributes in Terraform State

Verbose Logging and its Outcome

Quiz on Terraform CLI

Terraform Modules

7 Lessons

Delve into Terraform modules, including source options, inputs, outputs, variable scope, public modules, and versioning.

Module Source Options

Module Inputs

Module Outputs

Variable Scope within Modules and Child Modules

Terraform Public Modules

Module Version

Quiz on Terraform Modules

Navigate Terraform Workflow

7 Lessons

Follow the process of writing, planning, applying, and managing Terraform infrastructure efficiently.

Terraform Workflow

Initialize a Terraform Working Directory

Validate a Terraform Configuration

Generate and Review Execution Plan for Terraform

Execute Changes to Infrastructure

Destroy Terraform-managed Infrastructure

Quiz on Terraform Workflow

Implement and Maintain State

8 Lessons

Master the steps to securely manage and store Terraform state data for collaboration.

Describe the Default Local Back-end

Outline State Locking

Handle Back-end Authentication Methods

Remote State Storage Mechanisms

Effect of a Refresh Action on State

The backend Block in Configuration

Secret Management in State Files

Quiz on Terraform State

Read, Generate, and Modify Configuration

11 Lessons

Learn infrastructure configuration with variables, outputs, secrets, collections, resources, and dynamic blocks.

Use of Input Variables

Use of Output Values

Secure Secret Injection Best Practice

Use of Collection Types

Use of Structural Types

Create and Differentiate Resource and Data Configurations

Resource Addressing and Resource Parameters to Connect Resources

Terraform Built-in Functions to Write Configuration

Configure Resource Using a dynamic Block

Built-in Dependency Management

Quiz on Configuration

Understand Terraform Enterprise Capabilities

3 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of Terraform Enterprise, its workspaces, and core features like Sentinel.

Benefits of Sentinel, Registry, and Workspaces

Identify Different Workspaces

Important Features of Terraform Cloud

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Conclusion

1 Lessons

Examine foundational concepts and practical applications of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.

Wrap Up!

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

Course Author:

Ned Bellavance

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