Terraform - From Zero to Certified Professional

Install Terraform on Windows by downloading 64-bit zip, extracting the executable, placing it in a folder, adding that folder to system path, and verifying installation with terraform version.

Install terraformed on Mac by downloading the zip, unzipping, and moving the executable to /usr/local/bin, then run a quick check to confirm it works and remove temporary files.

Learn to install and configure Visual Studio Code for Terraform on Ubuntu, install the HashiCorp Terraform extension, and enable format on save for clean, colored code.

Configure the aws provider, set region and credentials, then plan and apply to provision resources and update the state file.

Learn how to update AWS resources with Terraform, using plan and apply to perform in-place updates or replacements, modify tags, keys, and instance types.

Destroy resources by removing them from your Terraform file or deleting the file, then run plan to see what will be destroyed and use Terraform destroy to remove everything.

Install cursor ai on ubuntu 20.04, configure it as a desktop app in /opt with a desktop entry, and install the Terraform HashiCorp extension with format-on-save.

Build a simple aws web server using terraform, provisioning an instance, a security group, and an Apache setup via user data for automatic startup and web access.

Learn to bootstrap a simple web server in Terraform by moving user_data to an external file and referencing it with the file function, enabling code separation.

Learn how to use Terraform dynamic blocks to replace many ingress and egress blocks with a single dynamic block driven by a list of ports, simplifying security group configurations.

Explore how Terraform controls resource provisioning order by default and with explicit dependencies using depends_on, ensuring security groups precede instances and parallel creation is managed.

Explore how to use Terraform outputs to print private and public IP addresses, security group IDs, and other resource attributes, and manage exporting selective details during provisioning.

Generate, store, and retrieve secrets with Terraform using the SSM parameter store, creating a random password and saving it as a secure string for database access.

Learn to generate, store, and retrieve passwords with AWS Secrets Manager using Terraform, including creating a secret, version management, and retrieving values for apps, with handling dependencies and JSON data.

Explore using Terraform's ephemeral blocks to generate and reference secrets without persisting them in state, including write-only attributes, versioning, and ephemeral data sources for SSM parameters and random passwords.

Use Terraform data sources to fetch the latest AMI IDs for Amazon Linux and Windows Server by filtering on name and latest, enabling region-agnostic, automated provisioning.

Provision a highly available web cluster in the default VPC with a classic load balancer and security groups. Enable green/blue deployment for zero downtime across two availability zones.

Learn to structure Terraform projects with variables and outputs, using defaults, types, descriptions, and maps to configure regions, tags, and environment-based settings across multiple files.

Explore how to provide Terraform variables at apply using command line options, environment variables, and variable definition files, with staging and production examples.

Learn to use Terraform local variables and local blocks to simplify VPC tagging, build region information with join and merging maps, and apply concise project names.

Explore executing commands locally on the terraformed server with the local-exec provisioner in Terraform, including creating resources, passing environment variables, and sequencing commands as a last-resort option.

Learn to execute remote commands on provisioned resources with inline shell scripts via ssh in Terraform, using remote-exec to run commands on Linux or Windows hosts and verify results.

Discover how to use the Terraform actions block version 1.14+ to automatically invoke a lambda function after create or update, replacing manual local-exec triggers.

Learn to use Terraform lookup and conditional blocks to make infrastructure dynamic, replacing hardcoded values with environment-driven maps, dynamic blocks, and production-only encryption for volumes.

Use Terraform loops with count to provision multiple servers and output their public IPs, while managing index-based names and common pitfalls.

Learn to provision multiple resources with Terraform using for_each loops, convert lists to sets, and apply dynamic blocks and maps to manage resources efficiently.

Learn how to use Terraform for in loops to build lists and maps, generate outputs such as server IPs, and filter user data by name length.

Learn to deploy resources across multiple AWS regions by configuring separate providers with unique aliases, then create region-specific resources and verify them in Europe, Asia, and US.

Configure terraform to provision resources across multiple AWS accounts and regions by using aliased providers and assume roles from a main account, deploying a VPC in dev and production accounts.

Call a reusable VPC module from a folder path, using default values or provided parameters to create staging and production subnets with tags, and print module outputs.

Learn to create and reuse Terraform modules with count and for_each, deploy multi-subnet infrastructure from git sources, and manage outputs and dependencies for scalable, automated provisioning.

Terraform module for multiple AWS accounts and regions enables deploying resources across accounts using provider configurations and data sources.