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Terraform Learning Map

LEARN MAP

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CONCEPTS

• What is Terraform?
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Declarative language
• History of Terraform
• Installation
  • Using package manager (brew, apt, yum)
  • Downloading from HashiCorp

Basic Concepts

• Infrastructure as Code
• Declarative Configuration
• Providers
• Resources
• State Management
  • State files
  • Remote state

Configuration Language

• HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language)
  • Syntax
  • Variables
    • Input variables
    • Output variables
  • Data types
• Terraform Blocks
  • Providers
  • Resources
  • Data sources
  • Outputs
• Terraform Commands
  • init
  • plan
  • apply
  • destroy

Providers

• What are providers?
• Popular Providers
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
• Configuring Providers
  • Provider block
  • Authentication

Resources and Data Sources

• Defining Resources
• Resource Attributes
• Meta-Arguments
  • depends_on
  • count
  • for_each
• Data Sources
  • Using data sources
  • Data source attributes

Variables and Outputs

• Input Variables
  • Defining variables
  • Variable types
  • Default values
  • Variable files
• Output Variables
  • Defining outputs
  • Output values

State Management

• Purpose of State
• State Files
• Remote State
  • Backends
    • Local
    • S3
    • Azure Storage
    • Google Cloud Storage
  • State locking
  • State versioning
• Managing State
  • terraform state commands
  • Importing existing resources

Modules

• What are Modules?
• Creating Modules
• Using Modules
  • Module sources
  • Passing inputs to modules
  • Module outputs
• Public Module Registry
  • Terraform Registry

Workspaces

• Introduction to Workspaces
• Using Workspaces
  • Creating workspaces
  • Switching workspaces

Provisioners

• When to use Provisioners
• Common Provisioners
  • local-exec
  • remote-exec

Advanced Concepts

• Templating with Terraform
  • Using the templatefile function
• Dynamic Blocks
• Terraform Functions
  • Built-in functions
  • Writing custom functions
• Managing Dependencies
  • Implicit and explicit dependencies
• Handling Secrets
  • Environment variables
  • Vault integration

Best Practices

• Code Organization
• Version Control
• DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle
• Module Reusability
• Security considerations
  • Storing secrets
  • IAM roles and permissions
• Testing
  • Using terraform validate
  • Integration testing with Terratest

Integrations

• CI/CD with Terraform
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins
• Configuration Management
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • Puppet

Resources

• Official Documentation
• Tutorials and Courses
  • HashiCorp Learn
  • Udemy
  • Coursera
  • A Cloud Guru
• Books
  • "Terraform: Up & Running" by Yevgeniy Brikman
  • "Infrastructure as Code" by Kief Morris
• Online Communities
  • Terraform Discuss
  • Stack Overflow
  • Reddit (r/Terraform)
• Practice Projects
  • Deploying a web application
  • Setting up a VPC
  • Automating infrastructure provisioning

Conclusion

• Keeping up-to-date
  • HashiCorp Blog
  • Release notes
  • Community events