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Managing Azure Infrastructure with Terraform
The Hashicorp tool suite has found a distinct place in the DevOps community as a fantastic set of solutions for some of the most common DevOps tooling needs and automation use cases. This 2-day...
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$1,950 USD
Course Code
TERRAFORM
Duration
2 days
Available Formats
Classroom
The Hashicorp tool suite has found a distinct place in the DevOps community as a fantastic set of solutions for some of the most common DevOps tooling needs and automation use cases. This 2-day engagement focuses on Terraform as a solution for infrastructure management. Led by an expert, your teams will perform real work and establish guidelines for how to integrate and use Terraform for the use cases they need to adopt or progress.
This training engagement places an engineering expert who has extensive experience with Terraform into a workshop setting with your teams so you can learn how to apply Terraform in a real-world setting. Our engineers have assisted many large organizations as they improve their DevOps practice and they bring this experience to your teams. Working together, our experts will provide hands-on instruction as they assist your organization in effectively using Terraform for infrastructure needs.
Skills Gained
- Use Terraform for creating and managing infrastructure as code
- Maintain version control of infrastructure assets just as you do with software assets
- Effectively use Terraform with Docker and Kubernetes for DevOps-style workflows
- Develop and present a business case for Terraform and related tools
- Run Terraform with public cloud infrastructure such as Azure
- Integrate Terraform with other technologies in the workspace
- Utilize core features of Terraform
- Determine integration needs and plugin needs
Who Can Benefit
This Terraform training class is for engineering teams, leaders, and technology stakeholders who need to help their organization create and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform.
Professionals who benefit from this course include:
- Application Developers
- Operations Developers
- IT Directors & Managers
- Development Managers
- Site Reliability Engineers
- Teams practicing DevOps
- CTOs
Prerequisites
Attendees must be comfortable with programming and have a working knowledge of shell scripting and Azure fundamentals such as virtual machines and virtual networking.
- Application Developers
- Operations Developers
- IT Directors & Managers
- Development Managers
- Site Reliability Engineers
- Teams practicing DevOps
- CTOs
Course Details
Course Outline
Part 1: Infrastructure as Code
- DevOps and GitOps
- Principles of Infrastructure as Code
- Applying Infrastructure as Code in DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code best practices
- Benefits of Infrastructure as Code
- The case for Terraform
Part 2: Terraform Overview
- Terraform configuration language overview
- Terraform CLI
- The lifecycle of a configuration
- State storage – local versus remote
- Connecting to Azure
Part 3: Azure Resources
- Resource metadata and naming best practices
- Subscription and resource group
- Networking resources (VNet, subnet, network security group)
- Compute resources (virtual machine)
- Storage resources (storage account, file share, blob storage)
- Database resources (SQL database)
- Variables
- Outputs
Part 4: Terraform Programming
- Control operations (count, loops, conditional, depends_on, etc.)
- Data structures (maps, lists, random_string, etc.)
- Data sources
- Functions (e.g., lookup, coalesce, join, merge, etc.)
- Variable validation
- Debugging Terraform
Part 5: Modules
- Purpose of modules
- Modules code file organization structure
- Module structure
- Module sources and versioning
- Nested modules
- Publishing modules
Part 6: Wrapping Up
- Reference material to learn more
- Course review
- Next steps