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Course Outline

Terraform Core Concepts Review

  • The CLI and its comprehensive sub-commands
  • The operational workflow of Terraform
  • State management: its critical importance and inherent fragility
  • Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL): evolution pre- and post-0.12

Designing Sophisticated Terraform Projects and Modules

  • Strategies for Modularization
    • Single-project, multi-module architectures
    • Interconnected infrastructure across single and hybrid cloud platforms
    • Decomposing root modules
      • Organizing both new and legacy monolithic projects with thoughtful structure

Developing and Managing Complex Terraform Projects and Modules

  • Comprehensive industry best practices
  • Handling module versioning
  • Embracing DRY principles for code reuse
  • Navigating complex provider scenarios across multiple projects and modules
  • Understanding the utility of the Terraform Null Resource

Introduction to Make and Makefiles

  • Automating repetitive Terraform tasks using reliable, standard Linux tools

Advanced Terraform Tooling and CLI Mastery

  • In-depth understanding of state and state files
  • Migrating and managing state in complex scenarios
  • Terraform import strategies for intricate situations
  • Addressing errors and complexities
    • Managing uncontrollable drift
    • Handling corrupted or irreparable state
    • Recognizing unfixable issues
    • Proactively preventing problematic states in Terraform

Advanced HCL Topics

  • Advanced configuration language features:
    • Strategies for reusability
    • Loops and meta-arguments
    • For expressions
    • Type management within expressions

Enhancing Terraform Security

  • Shifting security left and implementing defense in depth
  • Securing state files
  • Managing credentials and secrets through least privilege, rotation, and protection
  • Identifying potential security breakdowns in Terraform workflows

Infrastructure Reliability and Testing

  • Evaluating current automated and manual testing frameworks and methods
    • Assessing the current landscape, including tools like terratest
  • Mitigating drift and unexpected consequences in realistic scenarios
  • Balancing developer responsibility with automated testing, git hooks, terraform-pre-commit, and similar validation tools

Automating Terraform and Integrating with Pipelines

  • Using Terraform with Spinnaker
  • Leveraging automated delivery pipelines to enhance quality, stability, and reliability
  • Terraform and GitOps: Strategies for adopting GitOps workflows
  • Overview of Terraform Cloud and Enterprise, exploring how these offerings improve workflows alongside other solutions like custom CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Atlantis

Building Complex AWS Infrastructure with Terraform

  • Designing and deploying VPCs
  • Managing EC2 instances and other compute resources
  • Configuring AWS networking components
  • Integrating various AWS services into Terraform-managed infrastructure
  • Implementing security best practices for AWS resources

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of cloud infrastructure concepts.
  • Foundational experience with Terraform operations.

Target Audience

  • DevOps engineers
  • System administrators
  • System architects

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