10 Min - Revision notes for Terraform Associate Exam. Terraform visitor badge-2
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Study materials Links LINK A Free Course Developed by Andrew Brown from ExamPro LINK LINK Click on each topic below to expand the content What is IAC ? Understanding Infrastructure As Code. IAC What Is IAC? Understanding Infrastructure As Code Deploy your infrastucture resources with code. It enables DevOps, version control, better collabration Declarative - code in a readable format not worring about api speed, cost , reduced risk below code is an example for IAC, thi is a code to get current VPCs from AWS environment
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Terraform Terrform is declarative Codify your Software defined networking all cloud IAC solution (AWS,GCP,Azure) , cloud agnostic check out all providers for terraform, LINK Terraform Work Flow, IaC with Terraform. Terraform Work Flow Write -> Plan -> Deploy
Write the code, plan and review the code & once you are happy Apply to deploy the resources.
terraform init it initialize the directory which means it will add modules and plugins. setup up backend Terraform plan , terraform apply & terrraform destroy. PLAN terraform plan
it allow the users to review the code helps to understand what are you deploying your Auth keys are used only if needed APPLY terrform apply
deploy the code , create resources in your cloud updates the statefile, terraform.tfstate tfstate can store in local and remote DESTROY terraform destroy
destroy all your resources from cloud acording to the config file, that you created using code. Provider Block, resource Block and data block. Terraform installation and Providers. Terraform State. Terraform variables & outputs. Terraform Provisioners. Terraform state file. Terraform local and remote state files. Terraform Modules. Terraform input and output modules. Build in functions. Type constraints. Dynamic Blocks. Terraform fmt, taint, import. Terraform Workspace. Debugging. terraform fmt, terraform taint, terraform import. Terraform Cloud and Enterprise. Sentinal Policy as code Has its own laungage Version control Testing and Automation ex :- enforce CIS Security standards Vault Secrets Management Software Pass temparory creds terrform Registry Modules are stored in registry Publically accessable Anyone can contribute to Registry Cloud Workspaces workspaces hold in cloud rather than in local records activity Can trigger via github actions OSS and Terraform Cloud workspace OSS Create statefile locally Variables are stored in.tfvars file creds are stord locally Cloud Version control communicated via API/CLi State files stored in Cloud variables are stored in cloud work space creds are stord in cloud Benifits of Terraform Cloud remote execution workspace on org model version control manage remotely Private registry avilable to host privately cost estimation policy as code with sentinal More Useful links Terraform Best Practices - Link 250 Practice Questions For Terraform Associate Certification - Link