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Terraform 101 – Certified Terraform Associate

Looking to automate your infrastructure and enhance your Platform Engineering skills? Our Terraform 101 course offers hands-on learning to help you master Terraform and prepare for the Certified Terraform Associate exam. Build real-world skills that will boost your career.

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Looking to get into the DevOps space?

Interested in taking your career to the next level?

Decided to get more involved with automation and Infrastructure as Code?

Do you want to learn Terraform?

Want to become a Certified Terraform Associate?

You’ve come to the right place!

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Unlock Your Potential in Infrastructure Automation

Welcome to our Terraform 101 – Certified Terraform Associate Course! Designed to provide comprehensive training for those interested in cloud capabilities, this course equips you to excel in terraform certification.

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What You’ll Learn

  • Core concepts of Infrastructure as Code
  • Basics and advanced features of Terraform
  • How to work with terraform providers
  • Configuration management
  • Terraform Certification Preparation Time: Effective strategies to prepare for the certification exam in a short time
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Audience

Who should take this course?

  • DevOps Engineers
  • Cloud Engineers
  • System Administrators
  • Anyone interested in learning about terraform certification benefits
  • For an introduction to Infrastructure as code with Terraform
  • To take the HashiCorp Terraform Associate Exam
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Course Outline

  • Section 1: Course Introduction and Setup
  • Section 2: Infrastructure as Code Concepts
  • Section 3: Terraform in Action
  • Section 4: Terraform Architecture
  • Section 5: Resources and Data Blocks
  • Section 6: Variables
  • Section 7: Expressions and Functions
  • Section 8: Modules
  • Section 9: Terraform Cloud
  • Section 10: Secrets Management Patterns
  • Section 11: Terraform Associate Certification Exam PreparationWant
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In this course you will get to:

  • Learn everything you need to know about Terraform to ace the Terraform Associate Exam
  • 10+ hours of video content
  • The instructor has his camera on making you feel that you’re right in the classroom
  • Hand-drawn animated diagrams to help you grasp the topics better
  • Lots of hands-on labs to learn by doing
  • English closed captions so you won’t miss a word
  • Quizzes to help you grasp the material well
  • Join our Community
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Why Choose Our Terraform Associate Certification Training?

  • Expert Instructors: Our teachers are cloud engineers specializing in Terraform and other infrastructure automation tools.
  • Hands-on Approach: Our course provides a Terraform classroom training setting, enabling students to get practical experience.
  • Flexible Schedule: This is a pre-recorded course to fit your busy schedule.
  • Official Terraform Certification: Our course is aligned with the official Terraform certification, preparing you well for the Terraform associate certification exam.
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Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Explain the benefits of Infrastructure as Code
  • Gain a solid grasp of the architecture and benefits of using Terraform
  • Write Terraform code to build infrastructure to host an application in AWS
  • Take the Terraform associate exam
  • Apply what you’ve learned in real-world scenarios beyond the certification
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Prerequisites

Your toolkit for this course:

  • An open mind and a willingness to learn
  • Basic knowledge of the Linux terminal
  • No coding experience is required (but good to have)
  • An AWS account if you are not subscribed to TeKanAid Academy Premium
  • A computer with Internet access

Course Features

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Hand-drawn Animated Diagrams

Hand-drawn animated diagrams to help you grasp the topics better

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Hands-on Labs

Lots of hands-on labs to learn by doing

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Test Your Knowledge

Quizzes to help you grasp the material well

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Instructor’s Camera On

Instructor has his camera on for all of the 8+ hours of course videos making you feel that you’re right in the classroom

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Join our Community

Community support to ask questions and collaborate

Course Mindmap

This is a visual of the course content

Terraform 101 Mind map
Terraform 101 Mind map

What We’ll Build

In this course, we will build a highly available web application frontend. It will consist of the following AWS components:

  • Networking (VPC, availability zones, public subnets, security groups, a routing table, an Internet gateway)
  • An auto-scaling group managing EC2 instances
  • An application load balance

We will learn how to build all of this step-by-step. We also learn how to modularize these components.

This is all done first in Terraform open-source then we have a whole section on moving it all to Terraform Cloud (TFC) and how to use TFC.

Along the way, we pick up all the necessary concepts to get you comfortable to take the Terraform Associate exam.

To learn more take a look at the diagram and video below.

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Course Curriculum

Section 1 – Course Introduction and Setup
  • Terraform 101 Course Intro and Setup
  • Code Repository
  • Development Environment
  • AWS Environment [for TeKanAid Academy Subscribers only]
  • Community
  • Referral Program
  • [Optional] Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for Windows Users
  • [Optional] Windows Terminal Installation
  • [Optional] Installing Git for Windows Users
  • [Optional] Visual Studio Code IDE with WSL
  • [Optional] Docker on WSL2
  • [Optional] Install Terraform
  • AWS Account Setup
  • HashiCorp Terraform VS Code Extension
  • What We’ll Build
Section 2 – Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Concepts
  • What is IaC?
  • Advantages of IaC Patterns
  • Terraform’s Purpose vs Other IaC Providers
  • Declarative vs Procedural Programming
  • Quiz for Section 2
Section 3 – Terraform in Action
  • Basic Commands
  • Terraform State, Show, and, Console Commands
  • Terraform Taint
  • Terraform Import
  • Terraform Workspaces
  • Managing Drifts with Refresh
  • Terraform Logs
  • Quiz for Section 3
Section 4 – Terraform Architecture
  • Core + Providers
  • Version Constraints
  • Lock and Upgrade Terraform Providers
  • Provisioners
  • A Better Option: user_data
  • Terraform State Deeper Dive
  • Quiz for Section 4
Section 5 – Resources and Data Blocks
  • Overview and Referencing
  • Resource Graph
  • Quiz for Section 5
Section 6 – Variables
  • Variables Overview
  • Variables and Outputs to Separate Files
  • Variable Assignment in Files
  • Sensitive Variables
  • Variable Validation
  • Precedence
  • Local Values
  • Quiz for Section 6
Section 7 – Expressions and Functions
  • Rebuilding with Networking
  • Data Types and String Interpolation
  • Operators Conditionals and Templatefiles
  • Count and the Splat Expression
  • For Loops
  • For_Each
  • Dynamic Blocks
  • Lifecycle Meta-Argument
  • AWS Launch Templates
  • Output Tags with Values and Zipmap Functions
  • Deploy a Load Balancer
  • Quiz for Section 7
Section 8 – Modules
  • Modules Overview
  • TLS Module and Outputs
  • LB Module and Variables
  • Networking Module
  • EC2 Module
  • Data Flow
  • Quiz for Section 8
Section 9 – Terraform Cloud
  • Terraform Cloud (TFC) Overview
  • TFC Setup
  • Migrate to TFC
  • Workspaces
  • Remote State Storage
  • Move our Modules to the Private Registry
  • Workflows
  • Execution Modes
  • Terraform vSphere with Terraform Cloud Agents Demo (Optional)
  • Sentinel
  • Sentinel Example Demo (Optional)
  • Comparing Packages
  • Quiz for Section 9
Section 10 – Secrets Management Patterns
  • Secrets Management Patterns Overview
  • Set up Vault
  • Configure Vault with the Terraform Vault Provider
  • Inject Secrets into Terraform using Vault
  • Quiz for Section 10
Section 11 – Exam Preparation
  • Exam Objectives
  • What to Expect on the Exam
  • Course Wrap-up (0:22)
  • Closing Remarks
  • I’d like to hear from you
  • I need your help
  • Bonus Gift

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This is a beginner-level course on Terraform. If you’ve just started to learn about Terraform or are interested in taking the Terraform Associate Exam, then this course is perfect for you.

This course contains more than 10 hours of video content with the instructor’s camera on making it feel as if you’re right there in the classroom. It is a completely self-paced online course – you decide when you start and when you finish.

You will have unlimited access. There is no time limit as long as you remain enrolled in the course.

In this course, we will build a highly available web application frontend. It will consist of the following AWS components:

  • Networking (VPC, availability zones, public subnets, security groups, a routing table, an Internet gateway)
  • An auto-scaling group managing EC2 instances
  • An application load balance

We will learn how to build all of this step-by-step. We also learn how to modularize these components.

This is all done first in Terraform open-source then we have a whole section on moving it all to Terraform Cloud (TFC) and how to use TFC.

Along the way, we pick up all the necessary concepts to get you comfortable to take the Terraform Associate exam.

To learn more take a look at this video of what we will build.

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