Getting Started With Terraform On Azure: A Beginner'S Guide

Terraform Fundamentals for Azure Cloud Infrastructure Management

What you'll learn

Automating infrastructure provisioning: Students will learn how to use Terraform to automate the creation and management of Azure

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Students will understand the concept of Infrastructure as Code and how Terraform fits into the DevOps workflow. Azure Resource Man

Best practices: Students will learn best practices for organizing Terraform code, handling dependencies between resources.

Configuring Azure provider: Students will learn how to configure the Azure provider in Terraform to connect to their Azure subscription and authenticate .

Requirements

No Programming experience is required

Description

"Getting Started with Terraform on Azure: A Beginner's Guide"Description:Looking to learn how to manage cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure with Terraform? This course is designed for beginners who want to gain practical experience with the popular infrastructure as code tool.In this course, you will learn the basics of Terraform, how to write Terraform code, and how to use Terraform to provision and manage Azure resources. Throughout the course, you'll build your skills and confidence with Terraform on Azure. By the end of the course, you'll have a solid understanding of how to use Terraform to automate the deployment and management of Azure infrastructure.Course topics include:Introduction to Terraform and AzureWriting Terraform code for Azure resourcesProvisioning Azure resources with TerraformManaging Azure infrastructure with TerraformNo prior experience with Terraform or Azure is required, making this course perfect for beginners looking to get started with cloud infrastructure management.This course is designed to be hands-on, with step-by-step guidance and interactive exercises to help you learn by doing.Whether you're a developer, IT professional, or DevOps engineer, this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to manage cloud infrastructure on Azure with Terraform. Enroll today and start your journey towards mastering infrastructure as code!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to infrastructure as a code (Terraform)

Lecture 1 What is IAC(infrastructure as code ) and types of IAC Tools

Lecture 2 Terraform vs other IAC tools

Lecture 3 Install terraform using official terraform webpage or chocolatey package manager

Section 2: How to write Terraform configuration files

Lecture 4 Introduction to Hashicorp configuration Language

Lecture 5 File format of configuration files

Lecture 6 Authentication using AzureCLI

Lecture 7 How to manage Azure subscriptions - AzureCLI

Lecture 8 Resouce block

Section 3: How to Run the configuration

Lecture 9 Terraform init command overview

Lecture 10 Dependency Lock File (.terraform.lock.hcl) - Configuration Language | Terraform

Lecture 11 Terraform workfow of commands - init, validate, plan, apply, destroy

Lecture 12 Terraform.tfstate file

Lecture 13 Terraform Refresh

Section 4: Terraform Dependencies

Lecture 14 Terraform Graph

Lecture 15 Implicit Dependency

Lecture 16 Explicit Dependency

Section 5: Variables

Lecture 17 DRY ( Don't Repeat Yourself) Principle : Variables

Lecture 18 How to take input from user using variables

Lecture 19 How to override default variables

Lecture 20 How to save terraform plan

Section 6: Count - Meta Argument

Lecture 21 How to use count meta-argument to create multiple instances of a resource.

Section 7: Type constraint in variables

Lecture 22 How to add a constraint in variable

Section 8: Practise test

Section 9: Final stretch

Lecture 23 Bonus Lecture: Please checkout my other courses as well

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