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Terraform Core Concepts Review

  • The CLI and all available sub-commands
  • The flow of Terraform operations
  • State and its importance (including its fragility)
  • Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL), versions prior to 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
      • Working with both new and legacy monolithic projects, approaches to thoughtful Terraform project organization

Developing and Managing More Complex Terraform Projects and Modules

  • Comprehensive best practices
  • Module versions
  • Adherence to DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) 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 complications
    • Managing uncontrolled drift
    • Addressing corrupted or irreparable state
    • Identifying issues that cannot be fixed
    • Proactively preventing such scenarios with Terraform

Advanced HCL Topics

  • Advanced configuration language expression features:
    • Re-usability 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

  • Overview of available automated and manual testing frameworks and methods
    • Current limitations, e.g., terratest
  • Drift management and mitigation of unexpected consequences in realistic scenarios
  • Developer responsibility versus automated testing, including git hooks for validation and 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
  • Overview of Terraform Cloud and Enterprise, illustrating how these offerings improve Terraform workflows and highlighting other tools/processes serving similar needs, such as custom CI/CD pipelines for Terraform 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

  • An understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts
  • Basic experience with Terraform operations

Audience

  • DevOps engineers
  • System administrators
  • System architects
 21 Hours

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