Terraform Crash Course

Name: Terraform Crash Course
Rating: 4.4 (37 reviews)

Learn Terraform and Infrastructure As Code quickly

Created byMichael Crilly

Last updated 9/2019

English

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What you'll learn

Terraform's fundamentals
Automating Cloud infrastructure technologies
Infrastructure As Code

Course content

5 sections • 25 lectures • 36m total length

Welcome1:13
Welcome to the Terraform Crash Course.
About this Course1:58
Terraform Example Code0:09
Recommended Software1:14
What you can skip0:25
When to Terraform Apply0:23
Visual Studio Code0:17
Git0:24

AWS Provider, State, and Validation2:56
In this video we're going to briefly look at the Terraform AWS Provider; we're going to intialise our Terraform state, and we're going to validate our code by using Terraform's built in validation mechanism.
Creating an AWS VPC Resource1:44
Let's create a VPC Resource.
Terraform Plan & Apply1:38
We've got a VPC Resource but now we need to plan our changes and then apply them to the AWS account.
Check Your Understanding
Exercises0:17

Syntax, Resource Attributes and Internet Gateway1:37
Learn how to create an internet gateway for a VPC in Terraform, manage name collisions, and reference the VPC ID using Terraform 0.12+ syntax versus older styles.
AWS Subnet3:12
AWS Route Table2:40
Learn how to configure an AWS route table in Terraform. Create a default route through an internet gateway and associate the route table with a subnet.
AWS Network Access Control List0:50
Learn how to configure an AWS network ACL in Terraform, creating ingress and egress rules that allow all protocols and all IP addresses across all port ranges.
AWS Security Group0:34
Learn how to create an AWS security group, name it 'allow all,' and configure inbound SSH while allowing all outbound traffic.
AWS Elastic IP and Explicit Dependencies1:06
AWS (SSH) Keypair0:48
Create an AWS SSH keypair for EU instances, name it default, attach the public key to the instance, and enable SSH access.
Check Your Understanding
Exercises0:11

AWS AMI ID using a Data Block1:23
AWS EC2 Instance and Explicit Dependency1:31
Create an AWS EC2 instance with Terraform, starting from a data block to fetch information. Establish an explicit dependency by linking the instance to a key name for correct sequencing.
Creating an Output and Seeing the Results2:21
Learn to create and view Terraform outputs, print the public IP (elastic IP) after provisioning, and troubleshoot apply errors to finalize a web server with a VIP.
Terraform Destroy and some Final Thoughts2:34
Use terraform destroy to remove all resources, review the current state with terraform state list and terraform state show, and confirm destruction of all ten resources, then reset state.
Check Your Understanding

Requirements

Basic understanding of Cloud Computing

Description

If you've heard of Terraform and "Infrastructure As Code", but have no idea how-to get started, then I've created a course for you.

Together we'll start creating everything we need to interact with an AWS account. From there we will build a basic network, add in an SSH public key (AWS Keypair), and then start fetching data from the AWS Marketplace. Once that's done we will create an EC2 Instance and then finally we can blow it all away with a Terraform Destroy command.

Sound like fun? It is!

Let's get started...

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to learn to automate Cloud infrastructure technologies

Terraform Crash Course

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Course content

Introduction8 lectures • 6min

The Basics4 lectures • 7min

The Building Blocks8 lectures • 11min

Final Steps4 lectures • 8min

Extras1 lecture • 5min

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