Course Outline
Introduction
- How does Terraform differ from Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Salt?
- Why not use the AWS Management Console?
Overview of Terraform Features and Architecture for Government
- Infrastructure as Code, execution plans, resource graphs, change automation
Terraform Workflow
- Write, Preview, Create, Reproduce, Destroy
Getting Started
- Preparing an AWS account for use with Terraform
- Initializing Terraform
Preparing an Execution Plan
- Writing a new plan, saving, and removing .tf files
Working with Configuration Files
- Syntax overview
- Writing, version controlling, and updating configuration files
Setting Resource Dependencies
- Using the Terraform Resource Graph to manage dependencies
- Differentiating between infrastructure and application dependencies
Deploying Infrastructure
- Previewing configuration changes before deployment
- Executing changes in a controlled manner
Managing State
- Configuring a backend using AWS S3 and AWS DynamoDB for state management
Reproducing Infrastructure
- Setting up environments for applications: development, testing/quality assurance, staging, and production
Packaging Configuration Files as Modules
- Duplicating code with shareable modules to enhance reusability
- Using the Module Registry to build reusable templates for government projects
Integrating Terraform into a Deployment Pipeline
- Building, deploying, and testing an application using automated pipelines
- Importing existing external resources into Terraform for seamless integration
Terraform Performance Tuning
- Monitoring infrastructure performance and collecting metrics
Troubleshooting
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- Experience working with command-line interfaces.
- An understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts.
Audience for government
- Cloud architects
- System administrators
- DevOps engineers
Testimonials (4)
So in my mind, we walked out of those three days with the building blocks and knowledge to build just about anything in AWS with Terraform. Not only can we build it, but we can test it, and validate our terraform against best practices and setup pull requests hooks to validate code before allowing it to be checked in.
Bernard Quick - AWS, Inc.
Course - Terraform on AWS
- After two years of mainly virtual communication, training etc. it was great to have a course on site again togehter with the whole team - Additionally to theory and lab excercises it's very valuable to see the teacher doing stuff live as well, including all mistakes he might do. This greatly helps to getting an idea of how one should work with a tool, get help, debug etc.
Christoph Bocklin - swisstopo
Course - Terraform on AWS
Good knowledge of the subject and learned some fundamentals
Barry Halper - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Course - Terraform on AWS
There were lots of hands on examples and the walkthroughs we carefully explained.
