Terraform for Beginners using Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Name: Terraform for Beginners using Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Rating: 4.5 (79 reviews)

Start exploring Terraform from scratch along with GCP with hands-on demos

Last updated 5/2025

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What you'll learn

Hands-on labs both Google Cloud Platform and Terraform
Getting started with Google Cloud Platform Services
Getting familiar with Terraform basics
Learn how to create, manage, monitor and destroy resources
Create Databases and Networks using Terraform in GCP
Learn Terraform Basic Commands with more in details
Practice for Terraform Associate Certification
Get Terraform Associate Certification Practice Tests 2023 course for free by enrolling this course

18 sections • 91 lectures • 10h 12m total length

What is Terraform?1:06
How does Terraform work?1:20
Core Terraform Workflow1:26
Learn the core Terraform workflow of write, plan, and apply to define resources across providers, create execution plan, and apply changes in dependency-aware order, recreating a VPC before scaling VMs.
Why Terraform ?2:57
Terraform Configuration Example1:44
Explore a Terraform configuration example on Google Cloud Platform, using the Google provider with project ID and optional region, and resource blocks for Google Compute Network and VPC Network.

Terraform Registry4:49
Resource Block Local Provider11:38
Create a local file resource with Terraform's local provider, specifying file name and content or sensitive content, then initialize, plan, and apply to create and track it.
Multiple Resources7:40
Resource Block Random Provider12:25
Terraform Input Variables Block10:29
Types of Variables8:03
Terraform Local Variable Block5:53
Implicit and Explicit Dependencies4:23
Terraform Lifecycle Rules6:46
Terraform Provider Installation and Version6:32
Discover how to install Terraform providers from the registry, declare required_providers with version constraints, and run terraform init to install and configure providers like the HashiCorp random provider.
Using Multiple Terraform Providers5:44
Terraform Data Block4:54
Terraform Module Block11:21
Quiz

What is unique about this course?

You will not only learn Terraform from scratch, or Terraform with GCP but also you will have a good opportunity to have free one more course in your bucket!

Reasons why you should start learning GCP

As we know that Terraform is a tool for developing, changing and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. What is more, Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions. Also, Terraform is the first multi-cloud immutable infrastructure tool that was introduced to the world by HashiCorp and written in Go.
DevOps is about culture and practices that aim at uniting development processes.

Another reason why you should learn Terraform is that, Terraform is a tool and has become more popular because it has a simple syntax that allows easy modularity and works against multi-cloud. One Important reason people consider Terraform is to manage their infrastructure as code.

In fact, Infrastructure as code is also a key and foundation for DevOps practices such as version control, code review, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. If you try to search “infrastructure-as-code” on Google, you will come up with a list of tools, and anybody will get confused to see so many options. But Terraform is one tool to consider because of its excellent features and exceptional reasons (that we have listed further in this article) when compared to other similar tools.

Start your Journey!

Learning Terraform with GCP is amazing journey especially if you are learning and working with Google Cloud Platform. Therefore, I created most practical comprehensive course - Terraform For Beginners using Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

This course has 10+ Hours of insanely great video content with lots-of hands-on Lab (Most Practical Course). I am all exited to help you on your journey towards Terraform using Google Cloud Platform.

Cannot wait you to see in my first lecture!

Sincerely,

Otabek