Topics

🔸What is infrastructure as code (IaC)?

🔸Problems IaC can solve

🔸Benefits of IaC

🔸Provisioning versus configuration

🔸Imperative versus declarative approach

🔸Terraform overview

🔸Terraform features

🔸IaC configuration workflow

🔸Terraform use cases

🔸How to use Terraform

🔸Running Terraform in production

🔸Installing Terraform

🔸Authentication for Google Cloud

Objectives

🔸Define infrastructure as code.

🔸Explain the features and benefits of using Terraform.

🔸Explain the use case of Terraform for Google Cloud.

🔸Describe how to use Terraform for Google Cloud.

Activities

🔸1 quiz

Topics

🔸The Author phase

🔸Terraform Directory structure

🔸Introduction to HCL syntax

🔸Resources

🔸Variables

🔸State

🔸Modules

🔸Terraform commands

🔸terraform init

🔸terraform plan

🔸terraform apply

🔸terraform fmt

🔸terraform destroy

🔸Terraform Validator tool

🔸Why use the Terraform Validator tool

🔸Validation workflow

🔸Terraform Validator use cases

Objectivies

🔸Upon completion of this module, the student will be able to:

🔸Explain the Terraform workflow.

🔸Create basic configuration files within Terraform.

🔸Explain the purpose of a few Terraform commands.

🔸Describe the Terraform Validator tool.

🔸Create, update, and destroy Google Cloud resources using Terraform.

Activities

🔸1 lab

🔸1 quiz

Topics

🔸Introduction to Resources

🔸Resources overview

🔸Syntax

🔸Example

🔸Refer a resource attribute

🔸Considerations to define a resource block

🔸Meta-arguments for resources

🔸Resource dependencies

🔸Implicit dependency

🔸Explicit dependency

🔸Introduction to Variables

🔸Overview

🔸Syntax to declare a variable

🔸Syntax to reference and assign a value to a variable

🔸Variables best practices

🔸Introduction to output values

🔸Output values overview

🔸Best practices

🔸Terraform Registry and CFT

🔸Introduction to Terraform Registry

🔸Introduction to CFT

Objectives

🔸Upon completion of this module, the student will be able to:

🔸Declare the resources within Terraform.

🔸Explain implicit and explicit resource dependencies.

🔸Use variables and output values within the root configuration.

🔸Explain Terraform Registry and Cloud Foundation Toolkit.

Activities

🔸1 lab

🔸1 quiz

Topics

🔸Introduction to modules:

🔸Why are modules needed

🔸What is a module?

🔸Example

🔸Reusing configurations by using modules

🔸Module sources

🔸Calling a module into the source configuration

🔸Using variables to parameterize your configuration

🔸Pass resource attributes using output variables

🔸Module use cases, benefits, and best practices

Objectives

🔸Upon completion of this module, the student will be able to:

🔸Define Terraform modules.

🔸Use modules to reuse configurations.

🔸Use modules from the public registry.

🔸Use input variables to parameterize configurations.

🔸Use output values to access resource attributes outside the module.

Activities

🔸1 lab

🔸1 quiz

Topics

🔸Introduction to Terraform state

🔸How information is stored in a Terraform state file

🔸Ways to save a state file

🔸Storing a state file in a Cloud Storage bucket

🔸Issues when storing the Terraform state locally

🔸Benefits of storing a state file in a Cloud Storage bucket

🔸Process of storing a Terraform state file remotely in a Cloud Storage bucket

🔸Terraform state best practices

Objectives

🔸Upon completion of this module, the student will be able to:

🔸Define Terraform state.

🔸List the benefits of storing the state file remotely.

🔸Explain how to store the Terraform state in a Cloud Storage bucket.

🔸Explain Terraform state best practices.

Activities

🔸1 lab

🔸1 quiz