Deploy Infra in the Cloud using Terraform

Terraform is becoming the standard when it comes to deploying infrastructure into the cloud or on premise.

In this course you will learn how to create and deploy Terraform templates.

We will work with the different Terraform commands like init, plan, apply and destroy.

We’ll explore terraform features like input and output parameters, the execution plan and the remote backend state.

We’ll write templates for Web Apps, SQL Database, VMs, Storage, Kubernetes clusters and many more.

We’ll create the DevOps CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Github Actions to deploy into multiple environments: dev, test and prod.

Then we’ll implement GitOps for Terraform using Atlantis.

Along all these demonstrations you’ll also learn the Best practices in terms of security, configuration and scalability.

I hope you are ready and excited for this journey!

Bring a coffee and lets get started.

Current plan:

Intro

• Intro to Terraform (Init, Plan, Apply, Delete)
• Requirements (Terraform, Azure subscription, Azure CLI, VS Code+TF plugin, any OS)

ResourceGroup

• Deploying Resource Group into Azure
• Pay Attention to Resource Recreation
• Validate and Format Templates

WebApp

• Deploying Web App
• Adding Variables File
• Creating Variables in .tfvars Files
• Overriding Variables in the command line
• Creating Output Variables

Execution Plan

• Overview of Terraform Plan
• Demo

TF_State

• Working with Remote Backend State

Infra Deployments

• Deploying SQL Server with a Database
• Deploying and configuring Web App and SQL Server
• Deploying Linux VM
• Deploying Windows VM with Azure Bastion
• Deploying AKS cluster
• Deploying AKS with Managed Identity and ACR

Terraform features

• Functions (for each, for, count, if/else, random, lower, upper, min, max…)

DevOps with Terraform

• Deploy Terraform templates using Azure DevOps
• Configuring the CI/CD pipelines

Upcoming lectures:

• Data Source
• Workspaces/Environments
• Testing TF with Terratest
• Multicloud
• Deploy to AWS and GCP
• GitOps with TF (Atlantis…)
• TF with ARM
• TF competitors: Ansible, Pulumi, ARM, Cloud Formation
• TF Providers for Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, GIT…