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Enable DevOps teams to define, version, and automate cloud infrastructure using Terraform workflows, modules, and best practices.

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Audience: DevOps, developers, architects; those pursuing Terraform certification

Duration: 3 days

Format: Lectures and hands-on labs.

Overview

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) lets you describe configurations as code. Terraform is the de-facto standard, open source, cloud-agnostic, declarative, and idempotent. This course covers Terraform fundamentals and best practices.

Objective

Enable DevOps teams to define, version, and automate cloud infrastructure using Terraform workflows, modules, and best practices.

What You Will Learn

DevOps & IaC fundamentals
Terraform basics and HashiCorp ecosystem
State management & back-ends
Reusable modules & production-grade patterns
Loops, conditionals, zero-downtime deployment, gotchas
Testing Terraform code, team workflows

Course Details

Audience: DevOps, developers, architects; those pursuing Terraform certification

Duration: 3 days

Format: Lectures and hands-on labs.

Prerequisites:

Unix/Linux CLI background • Knowledge of a language (Java/C#/Python/Node…) recommended

Setup: Laptop with Internet • Chrome • SSH client

Detailed Outline

IaC benefits, comparisons

Install, single server, clusters, LB

Back-ends, isolation, workspaces

Inputs, locals, outputs, versioning

Loops, conditionals, deployment patterns, gotchas

Checklist, small/composable/testable modules

Manual & automated tests

VC, code review, CI, deploy