Learning Terraform
2h 28mBeginner2026-01-16
Authors

Josh Samuelson
Systems Administrator, DevOps Engineer
Course details
Terraform is a DevOps tool for declarative infrastructure—infrastructure as code. It simplifies and accelerates the configuration of cloud-based environments. In this course, instructor Josh Samuelson shows how to use Terraform to configure infrastructure and manage resources with Amazon Web Services (AWS). After demonstrating how to set up AWS for Terraform, Josh covers how Terraform manages your infrastructure, as well as how to use core Terraform commands. He also delves into more advanced topics, including how to leverage code modules from the Terraform registry and how to create your own modules. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll have the knowledge you need to efficiently define and manage infrastructure with this powerful tool.
Skills covered
TerraformHashiCorpData CentersDatabase ManagementLearning
Concepts
Introduction
- Learn Terraform for your cloud infrastructure
- What you need
First Steps with Terraform
- What is Terraform
- Your Terraform code repo
- Setting up AWS for Terraform
- Terraform Cloud
Terraform in Action
- Terraform plan
- First Terraform run
- How Terraform works
- Terraform states
- Editing your code
- Understanding Terraform errors
Infrastructure as Code
- Resources
- Basic resource types
- Terraform style
- Security group
- Using modules
- Terraform registry - Providers
- Terraform registry - Modules
Advanced Topics
- Get ready to scale
- Expanding your installation
- Variables
- Split out your data
- Modularize
- Deploying environments
- Cleaning up - Terraform destroy
- Terraform CLI
Conclusion
- Next steps