Terraform Fundamentals

Terraform is a tool used to create and maintain diverse infrastructure throughout its complete lifecycle. Due to Terraform’s design, it can interface with almost all APIs and manage any of the objects that those APIs support. Using Terraform it is possible to manage all of your infrastructure using a single tool, even when those components span a wide breadth of cloud and online software services.

In this video series, Principal Production Operations Engineer, trainer, author and speaker Sean P. Kane, will teach you how to think about Terraform’s role in your stack and then explore the tool and how it can be used to manage any API driven environment.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

• Become familiar with the standard Terraform workflow and how you can use it to interface with many of the popular public APIs on the internet.
• Gain a strong handle on the breadth of functionality that Terraform provides to make it easier than ever to manage complex infrafstructure.
• Become familiar with Terraform Cloud and how it can be used to provide a modern CI/CD workflow for infrastructure management.

This course is for you because…

• You're an engineer who has a need to create and manage API-driven infrastructure.
• You're a technical manager who oversees teams largely responsible for infrastructure and operations.
• You're an architect or leader who wants to understand what Terraform is capable of and how your organization could use it to simplify and improve the management of your infrastructure’s complete lifecycle.

Prerequisites:

• A general experience with technical concepts and infrastructure.
• Be comfortable with the command line.
• A solid grasp of REST APIs.
• Some general programming experience is useful, but not required.
• Basic comfort with Git is recommended.