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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction

  • Distinguishing Terraform from Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Salt.
  • Reasons for preferring Terraform over the Google Deployment Manager.

Terraform Features and Architecture Overview

  • Exploring Infrastructure as Code, execution plans, resource graphs, and change automation.

Terraform Workflow

  • The cycle of Writing, Previewing, Creating, Reproducing, and Destroying resources.

Getting Started

  • Configuring a GCP account for Terraform integration.
  • Initializing Terraform and provisioning a virtual machine (Compute Engine instance).

Application Creation

  • Initiating a new project on GCP.
  • Setting up a sample web application.

Execution Plan Preparation

  • Drafting, saving, and removing plan definitions in .tf files.

Configuration File Management

  • Understanding HCL syntax.
  • Creating, version controlling, and updating configuration files.

Resource Dependencies

  • Leveraging the Terraform Resource Graph.
  • Distinguishing between infrastructure and application dependencies.

Infrastructure Deployment

  • Reviewing proposed configuration changes.
  • Executing infrastructure modifications.

State Management

  • Configuring Google Cloud Storage for state persistence.
  • Implementing Remote State management.

Networking

  • Establishing firewall rules.
  • Managing subnet configurations.

Infrastructure Reproduction

  • Establishing isolated environments for application stages: dev, test/qa, stage, and prod.

Module Packaging

  • Reducing code duplication through shareable modules.
  • Utilizing the Module Registry to create reusable templates.

Pipeline Integration

  • Building, deploying, and testing applications within a deployment pipeline.
  • Importing existing external resources into Terraform management.

Performance Tuning

  • Monitoring infrastructure and analyzing performance metrics.

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion

Requirements

  • Proficiency in using the command line interface.
  • Fundamental understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts.

Audience

  • Cloud Architects
  • System Administrators
  • DevOps Engineers

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