Deploy Infra in the Cloud using Terraform

Learn how to apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform. Covers Web Apps, Database, VM, Kubernetes and Azure.

Language: english

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Instructor(s): Houssem Dellai

Last update: 2022-09-14

What you’ll learn

Automate infrastructure deployment to the cloud
Create Terraform templates
Working with the “Execution Plan”
Sharing and locking the State file
Deploy into dev/test and production
DevOps CI/CD pipelines for Terraform
GitOps with Atlantis
Creating and deploying Web Apps, Databases, VMs, Storage, Kubernetes clusters
Deploy to multiple cloud platforms using Modules
Troubleshooting Terraform
Applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Requirements

Basic cloud services

Description

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…

Who this course is for

Beginner to cloud automation
Software developers switching to Ops or DevOps
Students looking for more in depth course for IaC

Course content

Introduction
- Course requirements
- Connect with the author
Terraform basics
- Terraform overview
- Create the first terraform template
- Get the source code for the demo
- Moving to Terraform version 0.14
- Terraform init, plan and apply
- Recreating resources
- Validation and formatting a template
- Terraform commands
Input & output variables
- Creating a template for Azure Web App
- Source code for the demo
- Deploying Web App
- Terraform Variables
- Overriding variables with .tfvars
- Overriding variables with command line
- Output variables
- Input & output variables
Terraform execution plan
- Execution plan overview
- Execution plan demo
- Terraform plan command
Terraform state
- Terraform state overview
- Terraform state demo
- Terraform state management.
Terraform Workspace
- Dev/Test/Prod Environments
- [Demo] Dev/Test/Prod Environments
- Deploy Web App and SQL Database
- Terraform Workspace
- [Demo] Terraform Workspace
- Terraform workspace could be used to manage DEV/TEST/PROD environments ?
Deploy container services
- Deploy AKS cluster
- [Demo] Deploy AKS cluster
- Deploy AKS, ACR and Permissions
- [Demo] Deploy AKS, ACR and Permissions
- Quiz
Deploying PaaS services
- Deploy Key Vault and Secrets
- [Demo] Deploy Key Vault and Secrets
- Key Vault with RBAC for Secrets
- [Demo] Key Vault with RBAC for Secrets
- Deploy Storage Account, Container and Blob
- [Demo] Deploy Storage Account, Container and Blob
- Quiz
Deploying IaaS services
- Deploy Linux VM
- [Demo] Deploy Linux VM
- Deploy Windows VM & Bastion host
- [Demo] Deploy Windows VM & Bastion host
Deploying ARM templates
- Deploying ARM templates
- [Demo] Deploying ARM templates
Cloud Governance using Terraform
- Create users and groups in Azure Active Directory
- [Demo] Create users and groups in Azure Active Directory
- Assign an existing Policy
- [Demo] Assign an existing Policy
- Create and assign a custom policy
- [Demo] Create and assign a custom policy
Terraform modules
- Introduction to modules
- [Demo] Terraform modules
- Sharing modules with terraform registry
- More resources for modules
Import existing infrastructure into Terraform
- Terraform import
- [Demo] Terraform import
- More tools to import resources
- Import Azure resources into Terraform with Terrafy
Terraform features
- for_each, list, map, bool, number, validation
- if/else, count, lower, upper, max, min
- random_string, random_number, random_uuid
- http, local-exec, remote-exec
- [Demo] http, local-exec, remote-exec
- dynamic for nested bloc
- enable or disable resource creation
Deploy to Kubernetes using Terraform provider
- Terraform provider for Kubernetes
Deploy Helm Charts to Kubernetes using Terraform provider
- Terraform provider for Helm
Resource visualization with Rover
- Resource visualization with Rover
- [Demo] Resource visualization with Rover
Service Principal for securing Terraform deployments
- Introduction to Azure Service Principal
- [Demo] Azure Service Principal
- Service Principal with Terraform
Automated testing using Terratest
- Introduction to Terratest
- [Demo] Running simple test in Terratest
- Automated tests for Resource Group
- [Demo] Automated tests for Resource Group
- Automated tests for an AKS cluster
- More resources for learning Terratest
Detecting misconfigurations in Terraform
- Detecting misconfigurations in Terraform
- Detecting misconfigurations in DevOps pipelines
Multi-layer architecture
- Multi-layer architecture for Terraform
DevOps for Terraform
- CI/CD Pipelines using Azure DevOps
- Deploy to multiple environments
- CI/CD pipelines with Github Actions
Migrating deprecated resources
- Migrating deprecated resources
Resources
- Azure Cloud Application Framework (CAF)