Advanced Terraform

Introduction

• Terraform in the real world
• What you should know
• Terraform review and terminology
• Downloading the exercise files

1. Red30 Consulting Client Use Case

• Terraform usage scenario
• AWS and tools setup
• Designing AWS infrastructure
• Terraform configuration structure and variables
• Terraform configuration networking and EC2 instance
• Deploying the basic configuration
• Review deployed resources
• Removing AWS resources manually

2. Advanced Terraform Concepts

• Variables in Terraform
• List and map variables
• Object variables
• Challenge: Variables
• Solution: Variables
• Setting variable values
• Terraform output variables
• Expressions in Terraform
• Functions in Terraform
• Using the count and for_each meta-arguments
• Using Terraform modules
• Terraform module example

3. Developing an Application Infrastructure with Terraform

• Terraform remote state
• Deploying backend resources
• Deploying a remote state configuration
• Managing complex configurations
• Multiple environment configurations
• Deploying multiple environment configurations
• Creating custom modules

4. Terraform Automation

• Automation and CI/CD with Terraform
• Using Jenkins with Terraform
• Setting up Terraform Cloud
• Using Terraform Cloud with the CLI
• Using Terraform Cloud with GitHub, part 1
• Using Terraform Cloud with GitHub, part 2

Conclusion

• Continuing with Terraform