HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) Cert Prep by KodeKloud

Course details

In this course, learn the fundamentals and essential skills needed to fully prepare for the Terraform Associate (003) certification exam from HashiCorp. Instructor Vijin Palazhi helps you grasp the core concepts and practical techniques essential for mastering Terraform, a popular infrastructure as code (IaC) tool. Develop proficiency in creating and managing infrastructure resources efficiently using Terraform, and gain insights into infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and orchestration. Learn about IaC concepts, Terraform provider basics, variables and their usage in Terraform, managing Terraform state, using the Terraform CLI, and more.

Concepts

Introduction

Course introduction
Certification details

Understand Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Concepts

Recap IAC
Installing Terraform and HCL basics
Create, update, and destroy infrastructure

Terraform Provider Basics

Recap using Terraform providers
Multiple providers
Version constraints
Aliases

Variables, Resource Attributes, and Dependencies

Recap - Variables
Using variables
Output variables
Resource attributes and dependencies
Resource targeting
Data sources

Terraform State

Terraform state
Remote state

Read, Generate, and Modify Configuration

Count and for each
Provisioners
Builtin functions
Operators and conditional expressions
Local values
Dynamic blocks and splat expressions

Use the Terraform CLI

Basic Terraform commands
Lifecycle rules
Terraform taint
Logging
Terraform import
Terraform workspace

Terraform Modules

Terraform modules
Creating a module

Terraform Cloud

Terraform Cloud introduction
Terraform Cloud plans
Terraform Cloud demo