Course
Deploying Applications to the Cloud using Terraform
This class is designed to teach DevOps engineers, Production Support staff and developers how to effectively use Terraform to manage infrastructure in a cloud environment. The course covers the best practices around the concept of infrastructure as code and then introduces how this can be best be applied using Terraform.
Duration: 3 days
Who is it for: Developers, Devops engineers, cloud architects
Layout: This session takes the form of some lectures along with demonstrations and exercises to consolidate the content being taught. It also involves a substantial workshop component where students deploy an application to the cloud.
Modules
Infrastructure as Code and Automated Deployments
- What is IaC
- Approaches to IaC
- Terraform, Cloudformation, SAM and others
Infrastructure in Source Control – Git
- Introduction to Git
- Working with Git in the Enterprise
- Maintaining IaC in Git
- Triggering pipelines from Git hooks
Effective Git Usage
- Working with a local Git repository
- Working with a remote git repository
- Effective use of branching
- Handling conflicts
- Git best practices and pull requests
IaC and DevOps
- Performing automated deployments
- Blue / Green
- Canary
- In place rolling updates
Terraform Fundamentals
- Understanding how Terraform Works
- Setting up Terraform
- Deploying a single server using Terraform
- Deploying a load balanced cluster of servers using Terraform
Understanding the Terraform Language HCL
- Arguments and Blocks
- Identifiers
- Comments
- Encoding
- JSON syntax
- Style conventions
Terraform Datatypes
- Working with strings and numbers
- Working with collection types
- Working with object types
- Using variables as input and output values
Terraform Functions
- String and number functions
- Collection related functions
- Security related functions
- Network related functions
- File system and date related functions
Terraform Constructs
- Looping with for_each
- Working with counters
- The significance of depends_on
- Working with different Providers
- Using Meta-arguments
The Terraform CLI
- Understanding the core commands
- Validating using validate
- Using init, plan and apply
Working with Terraform Modules
- Using registry based modules
- Creating custom modules
- Publishing custom modules to a registry
Managing State using Terraform
- How do you know what you have
- Maintaining a registry of resources
- The Terraform enterprise solution
- Deploying, tracking and updating deployments using Terraform enterprise
Configuration Management with Ansible
- Introduction to Configuration management tools
- Automating configuration using Ansible
- Configuring servers using Ansible
- Deploying an updated application using Ansible
When to use Ansible or Terraform
- What should generally be done in Terraform
- What should generally done using Ansible
- Combining Terraform and Ansible
Extended Project
- You are provided a sample Spring/React fullstack application
- Deploy this application to AWS using either containers or EC2
- Set up an appropriate pipeline for updates to be deployed
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