Terraform

Learn how to use Terraform to control your Cloud services. Our Terraform training course will show you how to use this tool for building, changing and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions. Within a single Terraform definition, you can orchestrate across multiple cloud services.

«Peter created a safe enviroment, where it was easy to ask questions, and we always got good answers. He had lots of knowledge and was kind. He also remember the human aspects. Well done!» Frode Åsen, Sykehuspartner

Course highlights:

  • Gain an introduction to Terraform
  • Learn how to install it 
  • Go through Terraform basics
  • Explore instances and variables
  • Understand how to do software provisioning
  • Work with attributes
  • Learn to use remote state and data sources
  • Learn how to setup AWS      
  • Gain an introduction to VPCs
  • Understand VPC and NAT
  • Use EC2 instances in VPC
  • Explore elastic block storage
  • Learn private static IPs, EIPs and DNS (Route53)
  • Use RDS and IAM
  • Apply AutoScalling
  • Learn about load balancers in AWS
  • Use Terraform to control your cloud services

Audience:

IT Managers, Developers, Operations Staff, Network Administrators

Course details:

Terraform 1:

  • Introduction and Installation
  • Overview of Terraform Features and Architecture
  • Terraform Workflow 
  • Write, Preview, Create, Reproduce, Destroy
  • Writing Configuration Files
  • The Preview Process
  • Creating Infrastructure
  • Reproducing Infrastructure
  • Destroying Infrastructure
  • Versioning Configuration Files
  • Handling Resource Dependencies
  • Packaging Configuration Files as Modules
  • Managing Servers from Multiple Infrastructure Providers
  • Using the Module Registry to Build Reusable Templates
  • Terraform Performance Tuning
  • Troubleshooting

More basics:

  • AWS Setup
  • Instances
  • Variables
  • Software Provisioning
  • Attributes
  • Remote State
  • Data Sources

Terraform with AWS:

  • Introduction  to VPCs
  • VPC and NAT
  • EC2 instances in VPC
  • Elastic Block Storage
  • Private static IPs, EIPs and DNS (Route53)
  • RDS
  • IAM    

Terraform 2:

  • AutoScalling
  • Elastic Load Balancers and Application
  • Load Balancers in AWS

About the instructor: Peter McNaughton

“Peter has been teaching and consulting since 1995. Before joining Novell Peter was an analytical Chemist, and has been involved in many projects , both in the private and Public Sectors, with particular exposure to power, commercial banking and MOD within NATO.

Currently Peter is involved with providing consultancy on a digital DevOps  transformation from a large monolithic legacy environment to a cloud native environment using Terraform as the primary IAC tool.”

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