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

0. Introduction

01 - Course introduction
02 - Certification details

1. Understand Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Concepts

03 - Recap IAC
04 - Installing Terraform and HCL basics
05 - Create, update, and destroy infrastructure

2. Terraform Provider Basics

06 - Recap using Terraform providers
07 - Multiple providers
08 - Version constraints
09 - Aliases

3. Variables, Resource Attributes, and Dependencies

10 - Recap - Variables
11 - Using variables
12 - Output variables
13 - Resource attributes and dependencies
14 - Resource targeting
15 - Data sources

4. Terraform State

16 - Terraform state
17 - Remote state

5. Read, Generate, and Modify Configuration

18 - Count and for each
19 - Provisioners
20 - Builtin functions
21 - Operators and conditional expressions
22 - Local values
23 - Dynamic blocks and splat expressions

6. Use the Terraform CLI

24 - Basic Terraform commands
25 - Lifecycle rules
26 - Terraform taint
27 - Logging
28 - Terraform import
29 - Terraform workspace

7. Terraform Modules

30 - Terraform modules
31 - Creating a module

8. Terraform Cloud

32 - Terraform Cloud introduction
33 - Terraform Cloud plans
34 - Terraform Cloud demo