• What is Automation and Infrastructure as a Code?
• IAC Tools
• Advantages of IAC
• Difference between Deployment, Configuration Management and Provisioning
• Idempotent and Non-idempotent
• Infrastructure Deployment Phases

Hand-on Lab:

• Installing Terraform in Windows

• Understanding HashiCorp Configuration Language
• Understanding Providers and Resources
• Provider Registry
• Terraform Lifecycle
• Init
• Code
• Plan
• Validate
• Apply
• Destroy
• Understanding Drift Detection by Terraform State

Hand-on Lab:

• Initializing a Directory and Writing a HCL

• Validate and Plan the HCL
• Terraform Apply to Launch an EC2 Windows or Linux Instance in AWS Cloud
• Terraform Apply to Check Idempotent and Non-Idempotent behavior
• Changing the HCL Resources like Security Group or AMI or to Change the Infrastructure
• Destroying the Infrastructure using Terraform Destroy

• What are Variables? Declaring Variables in HCL
• Using Variables in External File
• Variable Type Constraints
• Suppressing Sensitive Values in CLI Output
• Variable in CLI
• Local Values
• Output Value
• Modules
• Divide Files

Hand-on Lab:

• Use AWS Resources as Variable in HCL or in External File
• Using Output Values to Get Information About Resources

• What is Terraform Cloud
• Creating Terraform Cloud Account
• Organization
• Workspace

Hand-on Lab:

• Creating a Terraform Cloud Account, Organization and Workspace
• Using Terraform Login to Authenticate with Terraform Cloud and Connect Local Files to Remote Workspace
• Using Terraform Plan and Apply to Trigger via CLI and Check the Changes in Terraform Cloud

• Provisioners

• Local-exec
• Remote-exec
• File
• Connection
• Null Resources Terraform Providers Learning Objective
• Providers
• Terraform Registry
• Terraform Registry Providers and Module
• Private Registry
• Terraform Provider Command
• Terraform Provider Configuration
• Terraform Modules
• Fine Line

• Resource Meta Arguments
• Depends_on
• Count
• For_each
• Resource Behaviour and Lifecycle
• Resource Providers and Alias

• Introduction to Terraform Expressions

• Types and Values
• Strings and Strings Templates
• Expressions - Operators
• Conditional Expressions
• Expressions - For Expressions
• Expression - Splat Expressions
• Dynamic Blocks
• Version Constraints

• Terraform State MV
• Terraform State Backups
• Terraform State CLI

• Finding Modules
• Using Modules
• Publishing Modules
• Verified Modules
• Standard Module Structure
• Creating Modules