Description

Terraform Essentials explains the benefits of Terraform in the cloud computing / AWS environment and gives participants practical examples in the “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC) topic area. In this course, we also train the advantages of open source description languages in the DevOps environment. By means of exercises, practical experience is gained quickly and participants learn to write reusable code. Demos teach concepts and good practice outside the box.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Advantages of Terraform for creating cloud resources
• Terraform basic commands and functionality
• Understand and apply language concepts to efficiently write readable and reusable code
• Hands-on experience working with Terraform

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Basic understanding of general networking concepts and multi-layer architectures.
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts
• Basic knowledge of basic AWS services (VPC, EC2, S3)
• Basic knowledge of software development and system administration (git, Bash, advanced editor)

Course duration / Price

1 day / € 750.00 (excl. tax) per person

Course outline

• Introduction
• Basic commands
• Core concepts 1 (State, Resources, Variables)
• Coding block 1 – Practical exercise
• Core concepts 2 (References, Outputs, Naming, Functions)
• Coding block 2 – Practical exercise
• Core Concepts 3 (External Resources, Loops & If/Else, Locals, Meta Arguments)
• Coding Block 3 – Practical Exercise
• Reusable Code: Modules
• Quiz, outlook and certification

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

The practical exercises are performed in prepared working environments available via web browser – no software needs to be installed. The course material is in English, spoken language can be in german or english. Other languages like spanish, portuguese or french, please contact us under training@tecracer.de