Essential Terraform in AWS

Course details

Elevate your AWS experience with Terraform for greater workflow efficiency. This course details how to deploy resources, applications, and services across the AWS regions to empower your AWS environment.

Highlights include learning the fundamentals of learning how to set up Terraform configurations, and working with variables and modules. Special attention is given to configuring Terraform in AWS, AWS configuration with security groups, SSH and outputs, and cloud-init and viewing resources. Instructor Dave Prowse shows you how to install and use Terraform to build cloud-based infrastructure efficiently.

Learning objectives
Understand Terraform fundamentals including Terraform cloud and Terraform language.
Configure Terraform with AWS.
Configure AWS with Security Groups.
Configure AWS with SSH and Outputs.
Set up Terraform with cloud-init and viewing resources.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Essential Terraform in AWS - Introduction

Lesson 1 - Terraform Fundamentals

02 - Learning objectives
03 - What is IaC
04 - What is Terraform
05 - Why use Terraform
06 - The Terraform help system
07 - How Terraform works
08 - Terraform documentation
09 - Terraform workflow
10 - Quiz

Lesson 2 - First Terraform Configuration with AWS

11 - Learning objectives
12 - Viewing the step-by-step instructions
13 - Creating a main.tf file
14 - Formatting Terraform code
15 - Initializing the working directory
16 - Validating Terraform code
17 - Viewing the Terraform plan
18 - Applying the infrastructure to AWS
19 - Analyzing the state file
20 - Destroying the infrastructure
21 - Quiz

Lesson 3 - AWS Configuration with Security Groups

22 - Learning objectives
23 - Coding a main.tf file in VSCode
24 - The Terraform registry
25 - Validating creating infrastructure
26 - Destroying the infrastructure and analysis
27 - Quiz

Lesson 4 - AWS Configuration with SSH and Outputs

28 - Learning objectives
29 - Creating the directory structure
30 - Creating an SSH key pair
31 - Coding the Terraform files
32 - Terraform outputs
33 - Initializing, validating, and applying infrastructure
34 - Using SSH to connect to the new instance
35 - Destroying the infrastructure
36 - Quiz

Lesson 5 - Terraform with Cloud-Init and Viewing Resources

37 - Learning objectives
38 - Preparing the lab
39 - Analyzing the cloud-init script
40 - Terraforming the infrastructure
41 - Logging in to the instance and verifying the website
42 - Viewing resources with Terraform commands
43 - Replacing individual resources
44 - Destroying the infrastructure
45 - Quiz

Summary

46 - Essential Terraform in AWS - Summary

Essential Terraform in AWS

Authors

Pearson

Dave Prowse