About this Module

Who is this module for?#

This module is for anyone who requires working with Terraform and AWS. It takes us from a beginner to master level of the course so there are no prerequisites required.

Module structure#

This module has sixteen chapters, namely:

1. Introduction to Terraform:

   This chapter introduces us to Terraform and what issues it resolves. It also compares Terraform to other technologies such as CloudFormation.

2. Your First Terraform Project:

   This chapter teaches us how to set up a Terraform project and creating infrastructure with Terraform.

3. Resources:

   This chapter introduces us to resources and teaches us interpolation syntax.

4. Providers:

   This chapter teaches us about provides and their best practices. It also teaches us how to make multiple instances of the same provider.

5. Data Sources:

   This chapter teaches us about outputs and how to output recourse properties. It also teaches us how to export all attributes.

6. Locals:

   This chapter teaches us about Locals.

7. Templates and Files:

   This chapter introduces us to the templatefile function. It also teaches us about files and loops in templates.

8. Variables:

   This chapter introduces us to variables. It also teaches us different ways to set variables and type constraints.

9. Project Layout:

   This chapter teaches us about how a Terraform project layout works and how we can structure the project files.

10. Modules:

    This chapter introduces us to modules. It also teaches us how to return complex types from a module and remote modules.

11. Plans:

    This chapter introduces us to plans and the plan command. It also teaches us how to run the apply command without the prompt.

12. State:

    This chapter introduces us to states. It also teaches us how to manipulate states, move resources from one state to another, and remote states.

13. Workspaces:

    This chapter teaches us about workspaces.

14. Provisionsers:

    This chapter introduces us to provisions and null resources.

15. Advanced Resources:

    This chapter introduces is advanced resources such as count, foreach, lifecycle, and depends_on.

16. Exercises:

    This chapter goes through projects and exercises for you to get hands-on experience.