Course Outline
Terraform Core Concepts Review
- The CLI and all available sub-commands
- The flow of Terraform operations
- State management and its importance (including its fragility)
- Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL), covering versions before and after 0.12
Designing More Complex Terraform Projects and Modules
- Approaches to Modularization
- Single-project, multi-module scenarios
- Multi-project related infrastructure across single and hybrid cloud or platform environments
- Root module decomposition
- Strategies for thoughtful Terraform project organization, applicable to both new and legacy monolithic projects
Developing and Managing More Complex Terraform Projects and Modules
- Comprehensive best practices
- Module versioning
- Focusing on DRY principles
- Complex provider scenarios across projects and modules
- Introduction to Terraform Null Label and its utility
An Introduction to Make + Makefile
- Automate repetitive tasks in Terraform projects using a reliable, standard Linux tool
Advanced Terraform Tool and CLI Understanding
- Understanding state and the state file
- State migration and management in complex scenarios
- Terraform import approaches in complex scenarios
- Handling mistakes and messes
- Addressing out-of-control drift
- Dealing with corrupted or irreparable state
- Recognizing what cannot be fixed
- Proactively ensuring you avoid these situations with Terraform
HCL Advanced Topics
- Advanced configuration language expression features:
- Reusability approaches
- Loops and meta-arguments
- For expressions
- Types in the context of expressions
Hardening Security for Terraform
- Shift-left Terraform security and defense in depth
- State files and security
- Managing credentials and secrets: least privilege, rotation, and protection
- Identifying where and how security can break down in Terraform workflows
Reliability of Infrastructure and Testing
- Exploring available automated and manual testing frameworks and methods
- Current limitations, such as with terratest
- Drift mitigation and handling unexpected consequences in realistic scenarios
- Developer responsibility versus automated testing, including git hooks for validation and tools like terraform-pre-commit
Automating Terraform, Terraform in Pipelines
- Terraform integration with Spinnaker
- Leveraging automated delivery pipelines to improve quality assurance, stability, and reliability of infrastructure and Terraform deployments
- Terraform and GitOps: approaches to adopting GitOps in Terraform workflows
- Terraform Cloud and Enterprise overview, examining how these offerings improve Terraform workflows and exploring alternative tools/processes such as custom CI/CD pipelines and tools like Atlantis
Complex AWS Infrastructure with Terraform
- Designing and deploying VPCs with Terraform
- Managing EC2 instances and other compute resources
- Configuring AWS networking components
- Integrating AWS services into Terraform-managed infrastructure
- Implementing security best practices for AWS resources
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- A solid understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts
- Basic experience with Terraform operations
Audience
- DevOps engineers
- System administrators
- System architects
Testimonials (6)
The trainer was very knowledgeable and easy to talk to, he helped with troubleshooting issues for some of the participants and answered all the questions. Course material was good and had a lot of examples.
Vlad
Course - Advanced Terraform - 3 Days
I liked the fact that the trainer was willing to help us on the debugging side.
Diana
Course - Advanced Terraform - 3 Days
I liked it very much, I appreciate the fact that Vicenzo took the time to answer all the questions and troubleshoot the existing error messages
Mihai
Course - Advanced Terraform - 3 Days
The subjects that were brought were interesting.
Razvan
Course - Advanced Terraform - 3 Days
Vincenzo provided support to troubleshoot different scenarios and also helped with examples.
Stelian
Course - Advanced Terraform - 3 Days
It clarified some of the things I didn't know about terraform.
