Course Introduction and Agenda
What is DevOps
Audience questions on Ops technologies
What is Infrastructure as Code
Imperative vs Declarative
An analogy for understanding Terraform
Audience question on scope of Terraform
What is Terraform
Audience questions on scaling infrastructure with Terraform
Understanding state
Installing Terraform
Installation walkthrough on Windows
Authenticating with AWS
Your first Terraform code
Running Teraform plan and apply
Audience question - Why does apply run plan again
Verifying and destroying a resource
Using a plan out file
Creating an S3 bucket
Resource names and updates
Updates vs create and delete
Using the VS Code terraform extension
Recap of the syntax and flow
Downloaded provider files
The tfstate file
The Terraform lock file and locking versions
The Terraform block
HCL syntax essentials and formatting
AWS VPC and a usecase for variables
Input variables
Supplying values to input variables
A web app on EC2 with security groups
Using output variables
Variables best practices
String interpolation
Variable data types and example
Local variables
Audience question Terraform with CICD
Looping
The count property and using index
Data variables
Implicit and explicit resource dependencies
Using terraform graph
Real world Terraform
Using Terraform workspaces
Writing code based on workspaces
Remote backend and locking with Terraform
Creating a Terraform module
Passing input values to modules
Using modules from Terraform registry
Wrap up and next steps
