Azure - HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate -70 Demos

Learn how infrastructure as code with Terraform enables rapid, automated creation of dev, staging, production, and disaster recovery environments using code templates, GitHub, CI/CD, and Terraform Cloud.

Install the Terraform CLI on macOS and set up supporting tools for Azure, including the Azure CLI, VS Code with the Terraform plugin, and a Git client, following step-by-step guidance.

Install the Visual Studio Code editor and the Terraform plugin to enable syntax highlighting and auto completion, then download or clone the course repository for Terraform manifests and sectioned configurations.

Install the azure cli and git client, upgrade to the latest version, configure azure cli for authentication, and set your subscription for terraform workflows.

Install git, Azure CLI, and Terraform on Windows, configure path and login, verify Terraform version, rename folders to avoid long path issues, and install Visual Studio Code and Terraform plugin.

Download the correct Terraform CLI binary for your Linux architecture and install it per HashiCorp's steps, or copy it to /usr/local-bin for path access and auto upgrade.

Review the Terraform manifests and core commands, set the Azure location to East US, and configure the Azure provider to create a resource group named my demo org one.

Master terraform core commands—init, validate, plan, apply, and destroy—for Azure resource groups, including provider management, state handling, and tfstate file updates.

Identify the eight Terraform top level blocks, including fundamental, variable, and calling blocks, and how providers, resources, data sources, and modules shape backend, variables, outputs, and locals.

Explore the Terraform settings, provider, and resource blocks to understand configuring behavior, declaring providers, creating resources, and locking CLI versions with a remote backend.

Understand how the Terraform required_version setting locks your CLI version, using constraints like >= 1.0.0 and tilde >, to prevent config breakage during init and apply.

Explore how Terraform providers power resource management, configure the Azure provider, use init, plan, apply, and destroy, and lock provider versions with the dependency lock file.

Define azure providers in the required_providers block with source HashiCorp/azure and a production-grade version constraint using a pessimistic operator; then run terraform init and upgrade and enable the features block.

Create an Azure resource group, run Terraform init, validate, and plan, then apply with auto-approve to deploy, followed by auto-approve destroy and cleanup.

Learn Terraform's multiple providers concept by configuring East US and West US providers with aliases, applying provider settings per resource or module, and controlling resource behavior like disk deletion.

Configure multiple Azure providers in Terraform with aliases, create resource groups in East US and West US, assign resources to provider, and clean up with init, plan, apply, and destroy.

Understand how Terraform dependency lock files preserve provider versions through version constraints, ensuring consistent infrastructure across teams by recording decisions, checksums, and local logs.

Create an Azure storage account in Terraform using provider 1.40.4.0, define the storage account resource, generate a 21-character name from a random string, and reference the resource group and location.

Explore managing terraform dependencies with a dependency log file and a dot terraform log sql, then run init, validate, plan, and apply to create resources and test azure provider upgrades.

Explore Terraform resource syntax, including resource type and local name, uniqueness within a module, and meta arguments like provider and count, with practical Azure examples.

Create an Azure virtual network using Terraform resource syntax, including address_space, location, and resource_group_name. Understand list and map notations and prep for the subnet resource in the next lecture.

Create and connect Azure resources with Terraform by defining a subnet, a public IP, and a network interface, configuring them within a virtual network.

Explore Terraform resource behavior, including create, destroy, update in place, and destroy-and-recreate patterns, guided by the Terraform state and Azure cloud API limitations.

Explore resource behavior with Terraform: init, validate, plan, and apply to create five resources (resource group, virtual network, subnet, public IP, and network interface) and verify via the state file.

Understand how Terraform state maps Azure resources to your configuration and updates after apply. Learn about the terraform.tfstate file, remote backends, and why manual edits are discouraged.

Explore Terraform resource behavior, including update in place and destroy-recreate, observe plan tilde changes on tags, and learn how lifecycle meta-arguments can alter destroy-before-create steps.

Understand the difference between the desired terraform state defined in local manifests and the current state of cloud resources tracked in terraform.tfstate, and learn cleanup with terraform destroy auto approve.

Introduce Terraform meta-arguments, including depends_on, count, for_each, maps, and lifecycle options such as create_before_destroy, prevent_destroy, and ignore_changes, via nine Azure Linux VM demos.

Explore Terraform meta arguments, focusing on depends_on and its role in resource dependencies. Learn how explicit dependencies affect Azure resources like resource group, virtual network, subnet, and public IP.

Learn how to use the depends_on meta-argument in Terraform to enforce creation order among resource group, virtual network, subnet, and public IP, with init, validate, plan, apply, and destroy demos.