Course Outline
Advanced Module Development
- Objective: Develop complex, highly reusable modules.
- Advanced module composition techniques.
- Module versioning and dependency management.
- Testing modules
Managing Infrastructure at Scale
- Objective: Scale Terraform to handle large-scale infrastructure.
- Strategies for managing extensive Terraform deployments.
- Workspaces and state management at scale.
- Optimising performance through parallelism and resource targeting.
Terraform Automation with CI/CD
- Objective: Automate Terraform workflows within a CI/CD pipeline.
- Integrating Terraform with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Automating infrastructure deployment using pipelines.
Testing and Validating Terraform Code
- Objective: Ensure high-quality infrastructure code through testing.
- Writing automated tests for infrastructure.
- Introduction to integration testing.
Terraform with External Providers and APIs
- Objective: Extend Terraform's functionality by interacting with APIs.
- Using the null provider for custom integrations.
- Writing custom Terraform providers.
- Interacting with external APIs and services.
Implementing Infrastructure Policy as Code
- Objective: Enforce infrastructure best practices via policies.
- Writing and enforcing policies in Terraform.
- Policy-driven workflows.
Optimising Terraform Performance
- Objective: Fine-tune Terraform for large-scale, efficient deployments.
- Optimising the use of state, resources, and data sources.
- Managing drift detection and performance tuning.
Debugging and Troubleshooting Terraform
- Objective: Master techniques to identify and resolve issues in Terraform configurations.
- Common Terraform issues and solutions.
- Debugging state, plan, and apply issues.
Advanced Security Practices
- Objective: Implement advanced security measures.
- Managing security groups, firewall rules, and least-privilege access.
- Encrypting Terraform state.
- Auditing and logging Terraform deployments.
Hands-on Lab: Deploy an End-to-End Secure and Automated Cloud Infrastructure
- Objective: Apply advanced techniques to deploy a fully automated, secure infrastructure.
- Incorporating advanced modules, policies, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Implementing multi-cloud architecture.
- Enforcing infrastructure policies.
Course Wrap-Up and Final Q&A
- Objective: Summarise key takeaways and provide future learning directions.
- Final review of advanced concepts.
Requirements
Terraform Intermediate Course or comparable experience. Cloud Account - When booking, please specify which platform you prefer.
Testimonials (7)
The practical examples and going above and beyond with them.
Anamaria-Daniela Sprinceana
Course - Terraform : Advanced
hands-on exercises
Gabriel Rusu
Course - Terraform : Advanced
Practical examples with real-life applications.
Lucian Popescu
Course - Terraform : Advanced
The effort that the trainer put in preparing the materials.
Catalin Opris
Course - Terraform : Advanced
Hands-on exercises and clear explanations
Bianca
Course - Terraform : Advanced
The fact that beside the Terraform course, the trainer has provided few other tips on other technologies. Liked the examples and the very well prepared materials.
Andrei
Course - Terraform : Advanced
The trainer - open to questions and well prepared.
