Terraform for AWS Infrastructure Management | IaC

Name: Terraform for AWS Infrastructure Management | IaC
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To learn and become expert in AWS Infrastructure Provision and Management using Terraform Skills | Basic to Advanced

Created byVisualpath Pvt Ltd, Sudhams Reddy Duba

Last updated 2/2025

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What you'll learn

Infrastructure Management plays a key role for the Organizations to handle using Terraform, when they a look at multi-cloud environments.
After completion of the course, you will be able to handle any environment from small to large Infrastructures which includes automation.
Logical Implementation is also need, which you will be learning from this course to handle in a more efficient manner.
We will be covering Terraform CLI(Community), Cloud(HCP), Enterprise(Self Managed), but underlying concepts will be the same.
Multi-cloud provisioning is a key factor for any Organization, for which we will have necessary skills from this course.
AWS Cloud has different services as part of Compute, Storage, Network, Serverless platforms which can be managed for create, update, and delete using Terraform.
We provide different scenarios with real-time examples so that for you it will be easy to manage on Live-environment.

Course content

18 sections • 125 lectures • 14h 29m total length

Who am I?1:03
Topics7:47
Approaches to manage Infrastructure in AWS6:46

Terraform apply9:41
Terraform destroy4:25
Execution plan1:50
Identify the target provider and project scope, assign the author to write your Terraform configs, then initialize, plan, and apply changes, with destroy for cleanup when needed.
Introduction: terraform init10:46
Terraform workflow commands1:26
Demo: terraform init14:41
VS code terraform extension0:44
Install the HashiCorp Terraform extension for VSCode, reopen the editor to reload, and verify syntax highlighting as the extension becomes active.
Introduction: terraform fmt3:46
Demo: terraform fmt7:28
Demonstrates how to use terraform fmt to format Terraform configuration files in the current directory and shows an EC2 example with ami, instance type, key pair, and tags.
Introduction: terraform validate3:59
Demo: terraform validate4:16
Demonstrates how terraform validate checks Terraform configuration syntax and required attributes, reveals errors such as missing or unsupported arguments, and guides fixes to ensure validity.
Introduction: terraform plan6:48
Learn how the Terraform plan operation previews resource changes before applying or destroying, including destroy and refresh-only modes and symbols for create, destroy, recreate, and update in place.
Demo: terraform plan7:12
Introduction: terraform apply4:18
Demo: terraform apply11:58
Terraform apply generates a plan, prompts for approval, and creates or updates an EC2 instance via the Terraform state file, with plan files and optional auto-approve.
Introduction: terraform destroy4:51
Demo: terraform apply9:20

Introduction: terraform settings15:11
Discover how the Terraform settings block defines provider information and remote state storage, sets Terraform behavior, and uses required_version and required_providers, with optional experiments.
Demo: settings block9:57
Demo: version check4:12
Demonstrate how to enforce a required Terraform version and version constraints, using equal or greater-than logic to ensure configurations run only on compatible versions across production, dev, and QA environments.
Demo: provider block12:58
Explore how to configure a provider block in terraform to set region, manage credentials, and select aws profiles, then run plan to validate authentication.

Introduction to Terraform variables2:27
Introduction: input variable10:30
Demo: input variable block8:59
Demo: input variable default value2:32
Demo: input variable cli2:49
Demo: input variable env3:29
Learn to define Terraform environment variables with the tf_var prefix and see how cli values override environment variables and defaults in a plan.
Demo: input variable (tfvars file)8:26
Demo: input variable (auto.tfvars file)4:40
Overview of input variable priority check4:55
Introduction: local values6:30
Demo: local values5:51
Demo: local values inheritance4:46
Explore how to use inheritance with Terraform local values to compose and apply tags to an EC2 instance in AWS cloud by merging local values with variables in a map.
Introduction: output values6:17
Demo: output values6:09

Introduction to Meta-arguments8:27
Demo: count met-argument part113:58
Demo: count meta-argument part210:25
Demo: for_each meta-argument part111:49
Demonstrate the for each meta argument in Terraform, comparing it with count to manage resources. Learn to launch instances across subnets using subnet lists and length to drive scaling.
Demo: for_each meta-argument part24:58
Demo: for_each meta-argument with output block part16:20
Demo: for_each meta-argument with output block part21:59
Introduction to depends_on1:25
Learn how depends_on enforces creation order in Terraform by declaring dependencies between resources like VPC, EC2, EKS, and EFS, using nested blocks inside resource or module blocks.
Demo: depends_on part113:55
Explore how depends_on in Terraform enables launching an EC2 instance with an IAM role and access to S3, covering plan, validate, and apply while troubleshooting policy errors.
Demo: depends_on part27:44
Explore how to enforce creation order in Terraform using depends_on to create a profile, a role, and a customer inline policy before launching an instance. Follow the validate-plan-apply workflow.
Introduction for life_cycle1:21
Demo: create_before_destroy life_cycle9:34
Demo: ignore_changes life_cycle3:39
Demo: prevent_destroy life_cycle10:48
Learn how to use Terraform to manage AWS infrastructure with a focus on the prevent_destroy lifecycle, protecting security groups during instance destruction.
Overview of replace_triggered by0:44
Explore how the replace triggered by meta argument in Terraform triggers service replacement when a launch template changes.

Demo: VPC network through AWS Management Console7:51
Demo: Terraform AWS VPC network12:11
Demo: Terraform AWS VPC Subnets10:30
Demo: Terraform AWS VPC Subnets AZ data source block7:22
Demo: Terraform AWS Internet Gateway(IGW) for VPC5:34
Demo: Terraform Route table5:33
Demo: Terraform Route table subnet association7:22
Demo: Terraform NAT(Public) Gateway and EIP for Public Route table7:23
Demo: Terraform Routes for IGW and NGW6:11
Demo: terraform apply6:20

Requirements

Basic knowledge on AWS Cloud, since we are using AWS as our target provider to understand Terraform features.
But it doesn't matter if you do not have any prior knowledge of target provider to understand the features of Terraform.

Description

Manage Infrastructure for Organizations through Automation is a key aspect as part of DevOps Culture. But in today emerging Application development, we can't find a solutions on a single Cloud Provider like AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, etc.,.

So we need a common tool that can manage Infrastructure across these multiple targets, for which we have Terraform as a solution for 99.99% Organizations.

In this training program, we have started from fundamentals to understand the working principal for Terraform core features for Freshers and IT professionals who are looking at these kind to solutions in their Organization or enhance skills as per IT requirements.

After understanding the fundamentals, next to understand the workflow and written Terraform code by using HCL(Hashicorp Configuration Language) which is a Declarative approach which make easy to understand for new to this tool as well.

Finally, logical implementation plays a key role for Terraform when we need to achieve for the target provider, in which this course will help you to stand with.

We have added different scenarios with examples for AWS as Target provider to understand basics to advanced level of Implementation. Some topics we have explained from scratch which might be boring for few of them, but you guys can always skip those, if you already have an idea.

Topics covered: Some topics have been uploaded and other will be coming soon...

What is IaC?
Why terraform?
Different types of Terraform approaches
1. Hashicorp Terraform
2. HCP Terraform
3. Terraform Enterprise
Terraform Setup and Configuration
Terraform Workflow
Terraform Blocks Overview
1. Terraform Settings
2. Provider
3. Resource
4. Input variable
5. Local value
6. Output value
7. data source
8. backend
9. life-cycle
10. null_resource
11. provisioner
12. dynamic
Terraform Meta-arguments
Terraform Functions
Terraform Workspace
Terraform Modules
HCP terraform
Terraform Enterprise
Terraform Policy
1. Sentinel
2. OPA

Who this course is for:

AWS Cloud Engineers, Infrastructure Management Team, Beginners to Cloud and IT
IaC Automation, AWS Solution Architect Associate

Terraform for AWS Infrastructure Management | IaC

What you'll learn

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 16min

Terraform Setup and Configuration8 lectures • 29min

Terraform Workflow17 lectures • 1hr 47min

Terraform Blocks Introduction1 lecture • 7min

Terraform Settings and Provider Blocks4 lectures • 42min

Terraform Resource Blocks3 lectures • 25min

Terraform Variables Blocks14 lectures • 1hr 18min

Terraform Datasource Blocks2 lectures • 9min

Terraform Meta-Arguments15 lectures • 1hr 47min

Practical Scenario01: AWS VPC Network10 lectures • 1hr 16min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: