Infrastructure Automation with Terraform (Coursera)

This training course helps you develop your skills and knowledge in Terraform. You can learn the skills for developing cloud infrastructure in an effective and reliable manner. In addition, you can also develop the skills for automation of infrastructure by using Terraform for public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. Therefore, you can become a valuable asset for many enterprises and access many opportunities for career growth.

This course contains 5+ hours of training videos. Learners could find a total of 33 lectures in the training course with comprehensive coverage of all topics regarding the implementation of Terraform for infrastructure automation. These lectures are divided into 5 Modules and each module is further split into lessons. The entire course includes Assessments to validate knowledge checks of learners. Also a set of Graded Questions is available at the end of every module.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

-Describe how to automate infrastructure on Cloud using Terraform.

-Deploy resources on AWS, GCP and Azure using Terraform

-Analyze basic to Advanced features available in Terraform

-Implement setup and manage infrastructure with Terraform

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Introduction to Infrastructure Automation with Terraform

Welcome to Introduction to Infrastructure Automaton with Terraform. In the first week, we will learn a brief introduction of Terraform as Infrastructure as Code. We will learn comparison of Terraform with other Infrastructure as Code tools and perform installation of Terraform.

WEEK 2

Managing Infrastructure

In the second week of the course, we'll learn how to manage and deploy resources on AWS Infrastructure. we'll analyze the importance of Modules. In the end, you will know the steps to configure AWS infrastructure as backend storage

WEEK 3

Working with Modules and Remote State

In the third week of the course, we'll understand the importance of Modules. We'll also learn the use case of provisioners along with their types. At the end of the week, we'll illustrate working in remote state.

WEEK 4

Advanced Terraform Features

In the fourth week of the course, we'll explore advanced features of Terraform such as local variables, built-in functions. Also, we'll learn to configure resource dependency with Terraform. In the end you will have clarity to Identify how to override existing configuration using files override concept.

WEEK 5

Deploying Resources to GCP

In the fifth week of the course, we'll learn to manage and deploy resources on Google Cloud Platform. We'll also analyze the use of data sources to identify a network created out of Terraform. we'll learn to implement the use of modules from the Terraform registry. In the end you will configure Google Cloud infrastructure as backend storage

WEEK 6

Deploying Resources to Azure

In the sixth week of the course, we'll learn to manage and deploy resources on Azure. We'll also analyze the use of data sources to create a Virtual Machine. In the end of the course we will learn to configure Azure infrastructure as backend storage