Terraform on Azure

Name: Terraform on Azure
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Become a DevOps expert using Terraform on Azure. Deploy services like CosmosDB, Kubernetes, SQL Server, MySQL, AD, ...

Created byEdward Viaene, Jorn Jambers

Last updated 4/2022

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What you'll learn

Write Terraform code (basic + advanced) and practice infrastructure as code on Azure.
Deploy Azure infrastructure using Terrafrom
Provision Azure Services using Terraform
Setting up a managed Kubernetes service (AKS) with terraform and deploy an app on it with Azure DevOps Pipelines
Azure Resource Groups, Virtual Networking, ScaleSets, LoadBalancers, AutoScaling, MSSQL/MySQL databases, Azure ActiveDirectory, CosmosDB, and other services
General Terraform knowledge in order to prepare yourself for certification.

Course content

8 sections • 67 lectures • 8h 34m total length

Introduction3:30
Introduction to the course
Course files0:03
Azure Terraform Cheat Sheet0:06
A concise set of notes used for quick reference.
Azure Account2:01
Setting up your Azure Account
Terraform installation3:06
Terraform installation
Terraform installation (for Windows users)2:19
Terraform installation (for Windows users)
Installing the Azure CLI (MacOS + Windows)3:01
Installing the Azure Command Line Interface
Creating keypairs using PuttyGen (Windows)4:50
Setting up SSH keypairs using Putty (for windows users) - Linux / MacOS users can use the ssh-keygen tool

Introduction to Terraform with Azure2:00
An introduction to terraform with Azure specifically
The Resource Manager6:01
The Azure Resource Manager explained
Demo: Resource Groups5:07
A demo on resource groups.
Virtual Networks7:51
How to use virtual networks in Azure
Virtual Machines14:57
How to use Virtual Machines (VMs) in Azure
Network Security Groups10:20
A lecture on how to setup network security groups (firewall rules)
Demo: Network Security Groups8:54
A demo on setting up network security groups
Availability (Fault and Update domains, Availability Zones)2:49
A lecture on availability
Scale Sets and Load Balancer7:02
Scale sets allow you to autoscale your VMs. A Load Balancer in front of those VMs can balance traffic and provide healthchecks.
Demo: Scale Sets and Load Balancer (Part I)13:07
A demo showing how to use a scale set and loadbalancer with VMs in Azure with Terraform
Demo: Scale Sets and Load Balancer (Part II)10:43
A demo showing how to use a scale set and loadbalancer with VMs in Azure with Terraform (Part II)
Demo: Scale Sets and Load Balancer with Availabily Zones9:18
A demo on how to use scale sets, but now with Availability Zone awareness

Introduction to Azure Database for MySQL5:34
How to setup a MySQL Database in Azure with Terraform
Demo: Azure Database for MySQL11:26
A demo on how to setup a MySQL database in Azure with terraform
Introduction to Azure SQL Database9:10
How to setup a SQL database in Azure
Demo: Azure SQL Database14:52
A demo of how to setup a SQL Database in Azure with Terraform
Introduction to CosmosDB11:03
What is CosmosDB and how to set it up with terraform
Demo: MongoDB on CosmosDB14:37
A demo setting up a mongodb-compatible CosmosDB
Introduction to Azure Storage10:33
An introduction to Azure Storage
Introduction to Azure Blob Storage5:16
What is Azure Blob Storage
Demo: Azure Blob Storage10:17
A demo showing how to use Azure Blob Storage with terraform
Introduction to Azure Table Storage, Azure File Storage2:09
Introduction to Azure Table storage
Introduction to Azure Queue Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen23:00
An introduction to Azure Queue Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage
Introduction to Azure Disk Storage10:26
Introduction to Azure Disk Storage
Introduction to Azure Active Directory6:08
Azure Active Directory to manage your users and groups
Demo: Azure Active Directory7:07
A demo of how to use a Service Principal in Azure with Active Directory
Introduction to the Application Gateway13:23
An introduction to the Application Gateway.
Demo: Application Gateway11:49
Create an Azure application gateway, add a second subnet for VMs, deploy a scale set with a custom script to install Nginx from GitHub, and configure basic HTTP routing.
Introduction to Azure Stream Analytics6:33
Explore Azure Stream Analytics for real-time analytics and complex event processing on streaming data from multiple sources, using saql queries with inputs and outputs to event hubs and Power BI.
Demo: Azure Stream Analytics14:58
Explore real-time Azure Stream Analytics with a terraform-enabled demo that filters IoT hub data for temperatures above 25 and writes results to blob storage, using a Raspberry Pi simulator.

Introduction to Terraform remote state3:10
You can store your terraform state remotely. This lecture explains you how
Demo: Terraform remote state on Azure12:21
A demo on how to store your remote state remotely
Introduction to Conditionals3:15
Terraform conditionals and the not-classical if-then-else approach, 0.12 enhancements for lists and maps, and learn how conditional omitted arguments preserve defaults and simplify module usage.
Demo: Conditionals6:14
Learn how to use terraform conditionals and the conditional omitted argument to control azure blob storage deployment with production and training files.
Introduction to Functions6:33
Explore built-in functions in the Azure Corp configuration language and test them with the Terraform console, covering numeric, string, collection, encoding, filesystem, date/time, hash, network, and type conversion functions.
Demo Functions12:35
Explore a hands-on demo of terraform functions, including numeric, string, encoding, lookup, map, date/time, hash, network, and type conversion operations, using terraform apply across multiple demos.
For and Foreach Loops5:39
You can use for and for each loops in terraform to iterate over your variables
Demo: For loops7:34
This demo is showing you how to use for loops
Demo: Foreach loops9:21
This demo is showing you how to use for each loops

Introduction to AKS - Azure Kubernetes Service2:17
Introduction to AKS, the Azure Kubernetes Service
Demo: setting up AKS (part I)4:49
demo showing how to run AKS in terraform (part I)
Demo: setting up AKS (part II)7:49
demo showing how to run AKS in terraform (part II)
Demo: deploying to AKS with Azure DevOps (part I)17:24
Deploy a Node.js express app to an AKS cluster using Azure DevOps pipelines, Docker build and push, and Kubernetes manifests, noting that Terraform support is not yet available.
Demo: deploying to AKS with Azure DevOps (part II)6:27
Push the demo app to Azure DevOps, build and push a Docker image, and deploy to AKS with a load balancer, exposing the application via an external IP.

Understanding Terraform Basics11:27
Install terraform core and providers, understand how the registry and provider versions interact, and configure azurerm with aliases to manage multi-tenant resources and private registries.
Terraform Provisioner6:55
Explore Terraform provisioners, including local and remote, and how cloud-init with custom_data runs on VM creation. Avoid provisioners due to complexity; favor cloud-init or container-based provisioning as a last resort.
Terrafrom CLI11:28
Quiz: Terrafom CLI
Terraform Workflow5:56
Write Terraform code to define resources, then terraform init, validate, plan, and apply using a planfile or auto-approve to deploy infrastructure on Azure.
Implement and Maintain State (Part I)6:36
Switch from a local Terraform backend to a remote backend like Azure Blob Storage to share and protect state with encryption at rest, versioning, remote operations, and locks.
Implement and Maintain State (Part II)7:56
Explore supported backends such as azure resource manager, s3, and kubernetes, with backend‑specific configurations and methods—interactive, file, or key‑value—and the case for remote state to protect secrets.
Read, generate and modify configuration (input variables)14:08
Explore read, generate and modify configuration in Terraform by mastering input variables, outputs, and locals. Learn types, defaults, validation, and sensitive handling for secure deployments.
Read, generate and modify configuration (output variables +locals)7:11
Learn to read, generate, and modify Terraform configurations using output variables and locals, including description and sensitive options, rare depends_on cases, and how locals streamline IDs across resources.

Requirements

No hard prerequisites, although having experience with Azure will be beneficial

Description

In this hands-on training we will teach you how to implement and use Terraform on Microsoft Azure from the start to finish. After following this training you can add this precious skill to you resume.

Our mission is to ensure you can start using terraform with Azure in your organisation to automate the provisioning of cloud infrastructure. After taking this course, you'll have the confidence of using Terraform in your organisation.

Let's go and happy learning!

Terraform allows you to write your cloud infrastructure setup in code. If you have used Microsoft Azure before, you'll know that setting up your infrastructure using the Microsoft Azure Portal (the Web UI) is far from ideal. Terraform allows you use Infrastructure as Code, rather than executing the steps manually by going through the correct steps in the Microsoft Azure Portal.

This course will teach you how to write HCL, the HashiCorp Configuration Language, to bring up your infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. Terraform is cloud agnostic, so the terraform skills learned in this course are easily transferable to other cloud providers. After teaching you the terraform basics, the course will continue setting up simple architectural patterns, like VMs, to get you used to how terraform works. Once you have a good feeling of how you can use terraform, we dive a bit deeper into the possible Microsoft Azure Services you can spin up, like Autoscaling, LoadBalancing, MSSQL & MySQL, CosmosDB, Storage Accounts, Azure AD, and others. Also covered is advanced terraform usage, like using remote state, for/foreach loops, and conditionals/functions.

Who this course is for:

Anyone using Azure wanting to use terraform to provision their infrastructure resources

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Course content

Introduction8 lectures • 19min

Terraform HCL5 lectures • 39min

Terraform with Azure12 lectures • 1hr 38min

Azure Services18 lectures • 2hr 48min

Advanced Terraform9 lectures • 1hr 7min

Terraform Modules2 lectures • 13min

More Azure Services5 lectures • 39min

Terraform Deep Dive (theory)8 lectures • 1hr 12min

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