Developing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Developing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

by Robert Jordan
Released December 2024
Publisher(s): Pearson
ISBN: 0135379067

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Video description

Learn Terraform from Principles to Advanced Collaboration and Design

Overview:

  • Learn why Infrastructure should be managed as Code
  • Implement best practices for managing IaC using familiar tools like git
  • Terraform configuration language (HCL)
  • Explore advanced features such as: Terraform providers AWS, GCP, and Azure

Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry over the past decade. Now that the dust is settling, IT professionals are beginning to realize that the roles, responsibilities, and practices that made sense need to be re-examined. This course lays out the road ahead and teaches cutting edge tools and practices to quickly bring existing skills up to date or to jump start a novice career.

Modern software development has spurred myriad advances in efficiency for developers; now infrastructure engineers can leverage many of the same tools and practices to deploy reliable infrastructure. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) dissolves the boundaries between Dev and Ops even further to the point where infrastructure engineering is now a software development discipline.

Developing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Second Edition illustrates the critical tools and practices to successfully implement IaC in a collaborative, production environment. You will learn how to integrate IaC into your test and deployment pipelines, how to enforce code review for infrastructure changes, how to manage infrastructure change, and many more topics. It covers all new features and software updates in Terraform with the latest updates in the technology.

Related learning:

About the Instructor

Robert Jordan has been designing, implementing, and deploying production applications for some of the world’s largest media and scientific customers for more than 25 years. Throughout that time, he has successfully led projects on all major cloud platforms.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertjordan2/

https://github.com/bananalab

Skill Level:

  • Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Learn How To:

Perform real-world deployment scenarios including:

  • Collaborate IaC development
  • Deploy stages (for example, dev/stage/prod)
  • Test and debug Terraform deployment

Course requirement:

Prerequisites:

  • Cloud computing and networking
  • Software development tools such as Github and IDEs
  • Command line interfaces such as bash or Powershell

Who Should Take This Course:

  • Infrastructure Engineers
  • System Architects
  • Software Engineer
  • Engineering Manager

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
    1. Developing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: Introduction
  2. Part I: Introduction to Infrastructure as Code
    1. Intro
  3. Lesson 1: Say Hello to Terraform
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 1.1 Setting up your development environment
    3. 1.2 Downloading the example code.
    4. 1.3 Applying your first Terraform.
  4. Lesson 2: Introduce Infrastructure as Code
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 2.1 Beginning with a look back: How did we get here?
    3. 2.2 Deciding why you should use Infrastructure as Code
    4. 2.3 Learning definitions
    5. 2.4 Exploring approaches to IaC
    6. 2.5 Understanding the software development lifecycle and IaC
  5. Part II: Terraform Basics
    1. Intro
  6. Lesson 3: Introduce Terraform
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 3.1 Building your mental model: What is Terraform?
    3. 3.2 Learning what Terraform is (and is not)
    4. 3.3 Learning about Terraform state, with demo
    5. 3.4 Learning the Terraform features
    6. 3.5 Discover if Terraform is multicloud
    7. 3.6 Review: How did “Hello Terraform” work
  7. Lesson 4: Learn HCL
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 4.1 Learning the basics: Overview of HCL structure
    3. 4.2 Learning Terraform providers
    4. 4.3 Learning Terraform data sources and resources
    5. 4.4 Learning about dependencies in Terraform
    6. 4.5 Learning about expressions in HCL
    7. 4.6 Learning Terraform variables and outputs
    8. 4.7 Learning for_each and count properties
    9. 4.8 Learn about Resource Lifecycle
    10. 4.9 Learn about refactoring features
    11. 4.10 Learning about provisioners
  8. Lesson 5: Learn Code Re-Use and Encapsulation with Terraform Modules
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 5.1 Understanding Terraform modules
    3. 5.2 Creating a module demo
    4. 5.3 Distributing your modules
  9. Part III: Using Terraform in Production
    1. Intro
  10. Lesson 6: Understand IaC Maturity Model
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 6.1 Exploring the phases of IaC adoption
    3. 6.2 IaC Maturity Model and Terraform
  11. Lesson 7: Learn Terraform Providers: Hands-On Activities
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 7.1 Introducing providers in Terraform
    3. 7.2 Working with AWS demo
    4. 7.3 Working with GCP demo
    5. 7.4 Working with Azure demo
    6. 7.5 Using other providers demo
  12. Lesson 8: Discover Continuous Integration and Deployment with HCP Terraform
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 8.1 Understanding Terraform and version control systems (VCS)
    3. 8.2 Setup HCP Terraform
    4. 8.3 HCP Terraform Module Registry
    5. 8.4 HCP Terraform Workspaces
  13. Lesson 9: Review and Next Steps
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 9.1 Reviewing what we have learned
    3. 9.2 Understanding what’s next
  14. Summary
    1. Developing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: Summary

Product information

  • Title: Developing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
  • Author(s): Robert Jordan
  • Release date: December 2024
  • Publisher(s): Pearson
  • ISBN: 0135379067