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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction

  • How does Terraform differ from Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and SaltStack?
  • Why is Google Deployment Manager not the optimal choice?

Overview of Terraform Features and Architecture

  • Infrastructure as Code, execution planning, resource dependency graphs, and automated change management

Terraform Workflow

  • Configuration authoring, previewing changes, resource creation, reproducibility, and resource destruction

Getting Started

  • Preparing a GCP account for use with Terraform
  • Initializing Terraform and provisioning a compute engine instance (virtual machine)

Creating an Application

  • Initiating a new project in GCP
  • Setting up a sample web application

Preparing an Execution Plan

  • Authoring a new plan, saving configurations, and removing .tf files

Working with Configuration Files

  • Syntax overview
  • Authoring, version controlling, and updating configurations

Setting Resource Dependencies

  • Utilizing the Terraform Resource Graph
  • Distinguishing between infrastructure and application dependencies

Deploying Infrastructure

  • Previewing configuration changes
  • Executing changes

Managing State

  • Configuring Google Cloud Storage for persistence
  • Setting up Remote State

Networking

  • Configuring firewall rules
  • Managing subnets

Reproducing Infrastructure

  • Establishing environments for an application: dev, test/qa, stage, and prod

Packaging Configuration Files as Modules

  • Reducing code duplication with shareable modules
  • Using the Module Registry to build reusable templates

Integrating Terraform into a Deployment Pipeline

  • Building, deploying, and testing an application
  • Importing existing external resources into Terraform

Terraform Performance Tuning

  • Infrastructure monitoring and performance metrics

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion

Requirements

  • Experience working with a command line for government IT tasks
  • An understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts

Audience

  • Cloud architects for government agencies
  • System administrators
  • DevOps engineers supporting government systems

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