Learning Terraform

2h 24mBeginner2026-01-16

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