Terraform for beginners - Zero to Hero tutorial!

Name: Terraform for beginners - Zero to Hero tutorial!
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Learn Terraform in just 2 hours! Learn Terraform FAST with our course!

Last updated 1/2025

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What you'll learn

What is Terraform? What is IaC - Infrastructure as a Code? How to install Terraform?
How to use Terraform with various providers like AWS, GCP or Azure?
What is terraform tfstate file for?
How to use variables in Terraform?

4 sections • 25 lectures • 2h 6m total length

Create AWS account and log on as a root user6:49
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.
Add MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) for AWS root user1:58
Create AWS Budget5:11
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 AWS IAM User and Group6:31
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.
AWS CLI installation and API access keys configuration8:01
AWS Free Tier, SSH keys and 'manual' EC2 server configuration11:07
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.

Creating Workspace and Terraform provider configuration4:20
Terraform init and lock file explained1:51
Build first server using Terraform4:35
terraform plan and terraform apply commands4:21
terraform destroy command2:45
Create AWS VPC with Terraform7:26
Create subnet and Terraform dependency tree explained6:31
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.
Create server, subnet and VPC and more about dependencies7:01
Terraform tfstate file9:37
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.
Variables4:50
tfvars file explained3:18
Create 100 servers with 'count' meta-argument7:20
How to use Terraform with GCP, Azure or other providers3:02

No previous experience is required - you will learn everything you need by following this course.

Welcome to Terraform Zero to Hero Course!

In this Terraform training for beginners we will learn how to deploy infrastructure using Terraform.

This Terraform tutorial will help you understand the fundamentals of Terraform and its architecture.

You will also learn HCL - HashiCorp Configuration Language and many other topics in just 2 hours!

You will learn all you need to start working with Terraform, for example:

Let's get started!

Anybody who is interested in Infrastructure as a Service, wants to work as DevOps or Cloud administrator.