Terraform for beginners - Zero to Hero tutorial!

Create a new AWS account, sign in as root, and enable multi-factor authentication while exploring the free tier and initial region settings in the management console.

Learn how to enable multi-factor authentication for the AWS root user using an authenticator app, scan a QR code, and enter codes to secure your account.

Create an AWS budget to monitor spend and receive email alerts when costs exceed a threshold, noting that budgets only notify and do not disable resources.

Create an admin IAM user and group, grant administrator full access to AWS services, enable console access, and avoid using the root account for resource management.

Learn how to set up an IAM user with programmatic access, generate and secure access keys, install and configure the AWS CLI to manage resources from the command line.

Launch a free tier eligible EC2 instance with Ubuntu, set up an SSH key pair, connect via SSH or EC2 Instance Connect, and terminate when finished.

Install Visual Studio Code, an integrated development environment that speeds up Terraform, Python, Ansible, and YAML workflows with autocompletion and highlighting.

Install the official HashiCorp Terraform extension in VSCode to enable syntax highlighting and auto completion. Explore the extensions panel, compare options, and prepare to start working with Terraform.

Set up a dedicated Terraform workspace in VS Code, configure the AWS provider, and save a provider block with region details for your cloud resources.

Initialize a new Terraform workspace by setting up the backend and provider plugins, install the AWS provider, create a Terraform log, and download binaries into a hidden folder.

Build your first cloud server with Terraform by defining an AWS EC2 resource, using an Ubuntu AMI ID, and choosing a free-tier T2 micro with the name Marek first server.

Use terraform plan to preview AWS resource creation before applying changes. Run terraform apply to create a virtual server and confirm the instance runs and matches the declared state.

Learn how to manage infrastructure with Terraform by destroying and re-creating AWS instances using terraform destroy and terraform apply, including destroy plan and state.

Terraform teaches you to create a custom AWS VPC and subnets, replacing the default VPC, by defining resources and planning before applying in Terraform.

Create a subnet in a VPC using Terraform, wiring the subnet to the VPC through a dependency tree and references to the VPC id, with CIDR and availability zone settings.

Explore how Terraform orchestrates AWS VPC, subnets, and network interfaces, showing dependency resolution and creation order from VPC to subnet to network interface to server.

Learn how Terraform manages cloud state with the tfstate file, use an S3 backend for remote storage, enable versioning, and implement locking to prevent concurrent edits.

Learn how to use variables in Terraform's HCL to replace repeated values with var references, set defaults, and simplify scalable infrastructure configuration.

Use a tfvars file to manage variables separately and override defaults, keeping sensitive values like passwords secure in a vault rather than in Git.

Discover how to scale Terraform with the count meta-argument to create 100 AWS instances, use count.index for unique names, and manage the VPC and subnets.

Explore how to use Terraform with Google Cloud provider and other providers by following the official documentation, understanding resources, modules, and meta arguments like count.