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Terraform - From Zero to Certified Professional

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Overview

2025 HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate and much more

What you'll learn:
  • Get Fully Ready for HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Exam
  • Create Cloud Infrastructure using Terraform on AWS - Amazon Web Services
  • Use Terraform on Professional Level
  • Create and Use Terraform Modules
  • Refactor Existing Infrastructure using Terraform
  • All the basic and advanced topics of Terraform
  • Terraform Open Source, Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise
  • How to Switch or Migrate from Terraform to OpenTofu

Welcome to Course:Terraform - From Zero to Certified Professional

Course covering all features of Terraform required to pass HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate Exam certification exam.

Course is fully bases on building Infrastructure on AWS - Amazon Web Services, but
I have one lesson to show how to work with GCP - Google Cloud Platform and provision VM and simple WebServer.

We also will use AI to write code and find and fix issues in my code.

Course Lessons:

  1. Welcome and Intro

  2. What is Terraform and Why you need it

  3. Installation on Windows

  4. Installation on Linux

  5. Installation on Mac

  6. Upgrade Terraform Version

  7. Installation of Visual Studio Code and Terraform Plugin

  8. AWS Credentials Setup for Terraform

  9. Create Resources on AWS

  10. Update Resources on AWS

  11. Destroy Resources on AWS

  12. Installation and use of Cursor AI Code Editor and Terraform Plugin

  13. Fixing Error for EC2-Classic no new Security Groups can be created without referencing a VPC

  14. Bootstrap simple WebServer

  15. Bootstrap simple WebServer with External Static file

  16. Bootstrap simple WebServer with External Template file

  17. Example Working with Google Cloud Platform, create simple VM and WebServer

  18. Dynamic Blocks

  19. Almost Zero downtime WebServer with Lifecycle and Elastic IP

  20. Manage dependency - depends_on

  21. Show execution results - outputs

  22. Generate, Store, Retrieve Secrets - SSM Parameter Store

  23. Generate, Store, Retrieve Secrets - AWS Secrets Manager

  24. Use Data Sources to fetch information

  25. Use Data Sources to fetch latest AMI id

  26. Deploy Highly Available Web Site with Zero Downtime and Green/Blue Deployment

  27. Variables

  28. Variables with Auto Filling

  29. Local Variables

  30. Execute Local Commands - local-exec

  31. Execute Remote Commands - remote-exec

  32. Lookup and Conditions

  33. Terraform Loops - count

  34. Terraform Loops - for_each

  35. Terraform Loops - for in

  36. Create Resources in Multiply AWS Regions

  37. Create Resources in Multiply AWS Accounts and Regions

  38. Terraform Remote State

  39. Terraform Modules Part-1 - Convert your code into Module

  40. Terraform Modules Part-2 - Use Modules

  41. Terraform Modules Part-3 - Use Modules in loops, store and use Modules in GitHub

  42. Terraform Module for Multiply AWS Accounts and Regions

  43. Best way to recreate resource - terraform taint up to v0.15.1

  44. Best way to recreate resource - terraform apply -replace since v0.15.2

  45. How to manage existing resources - terraform import

  46. How to Import existing resources semi-automatically with v1.5+

  47. Terraform Workspaces and when to use them - terraform workspace

  48. Refactoring Terraform code, manipulation with State - terraform state - Part-1

  49. Refactoring Terraform code, manipulation with State - terraform state - Part-2

  50. Terraform validate, Terraform show, Terraform output, Terraform console, Terraform apply -target

  51. Terraform Logs

  52. Terraform Cloud

  53. Terraform Enterprise

  54. Terraform folders Hierarchy for Dev, Staging, Prod environments

  55. How to use Global Variables

  56. Lock file .terraform.lock.hcl

  57. When to use and how works AWSS3 State Lock File

  58. Review of HashiCorp Certified Associate Exam and how to Register

  59. BONUS - Complex problem solution using Loop inside Loop inside Loop inside Loop

  60. BONUS - Alternative AWS Provider - AWSCC

  61. BONUS - How to Switch or Migrate from Terraform to OpenTofu and back

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Installation and Setup
  • Basics of Terraform
  • Cursor AI
  • Provisioning of Web Server
  • Working with Google Cloud Platform
  • Expansion of Terraform features
  • Features of Last Resort
  • Advanced Features of Terraform
  • Super Important Advanced Features of Terraform
  • Less used but anyway important commands
  • Other Terraform things to know for the Exam
  • Best Practice and recommendations
  • Terraform Exam
  • Terraform Solutions
  • Project OpenTofu

Taught by

Denis Astahov

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