Mastering Infrastructure as Code for Cloud DevOps Success
You’re under pressure. Deadlines are tightening, environments are inconsistent, and manual configuration is costing your team hours - and credibility. You know Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the answer, but where do you start? How do you move from fragmented scripts to a robust, scalable, and secure DevOps pipeline that earns trust at the leadership level? Every minute spent troubleshooting deployment failures or rebuilding servers is a minute lost toward innovation. The gap between knowing about IaC and mastering it can mean the difference between stagnation and promotion, between running reactive ops and driving strategic cloud transformation. Mastering Infrastructure as Code for Cloud DevOps Success isn't just another training. It's your structured path from confusion to command. This course delivers the clarity, precision, and repeatable frameworks you need to deploy production-grade infrastructure with confidence - and prove it with measurable results. One senior DevOps engineer used this system to reduce his company's provisioning time from 4 hours to 12 minutes, standardize 97% of their environment configurations, and eliminate configuration drift across 3 cloud regions. Within two months, he led a company-wide IaC rollout and was promoted to Cloud Architect. This isn't theoretical. It's a battle-tested methodology that transforms how you think about infrastructure, giving you the leverage to deliver faster, more reliably, and with far less effort. You'll go from fragmented scripts to board-ready automation proposals in as little as 30 days - with a complete implementation blueprint you can use immediately. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Self-Paced. Immediate Access. Zero Time Conflicts. This course is designed for working professionals - no fixed schedules, no live sessions to attend. From the moment you enroll, you gain full access to the learning platform, with all materials available on-demand. Progress at your pace, on your timeline. Most learners complete the core curriculum in 25 to 30 hours. Many implement a production-ready IaC workflow within the first two weeks. This isn't just knowledge acquisition - it’s rapid capability deployment. What You Gain Instantly
- Lifetime access - No expiration, no access drop-off. Revisit modules anytime, forever.
- Ongoing future updates at no extra cost - As cloud providers evolve, so does your training.
- Available 24/7 from any device - fully mobile-friendly with responsive design.
- Access from any country, any time zone - fully optimised for global learners.
- Step-by-step guidance with direct instructor insights, curated examples, and real-world paradigms.
- Structured progress tracking to keep you on path - no guesswork, no dead ends.
Your Certificate of Completion
Upon finishing, you'll receive a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service - a globally recognised credential trusted by IT leaders, hiring managers, and enterprises. This isn't a participation badge. It's validation of your demonstrated ability to implement zero-touch infrastructure deployments using industry-leading tools and patterns. The Art of Service has trained over 120,000 technology professionals worldwide. Our certifications are referenced in job descriptions, used in vendor compliance, and embedded in internal promotion criteria. This credential opens doors because it means you’ve mastered what working teams actually use. How You’re Supported
You’re not left to figure things out alone. The course includes direct access to instructor-curated guidance, architecture decision templates, and responsive support for concept clarification. If you hit a roadblock, you’ll find a clear path forward - with practical examples, not theory. No Risk. Full Confidence.
We remove every barrier to your success. If this course doesn’t meet your expectations, you’re covered by our 100% money-back guarantee. No questions, no hoops. This is our promise: you will either master IaC or get a full refund. Period. Transparent Pricing. No Hidden Fees.
One flat fee. No subscriptions, no upsells, no surprise charges. The price covers everything - curriculum, labs, tools integration, updates, and your final certificate. No additional costs ever. Secure payment accepted via Visa, Mastercard, PayPal. All transactions are encrypted and processed through PCI-compliant gateways. Will This Work for Me?
Yes - even if you’re new to automation, overwhelmed by YAML sprawl, or working in a legacy-heavy environment. This course works even if: - You’ve tried IaC before but couldn’t scale it beyond one-off scripts.
- You’re not a developer but need to write maintainable, version-controlled infrastructure.
- Your organisation uses a mix of AWS, Azure, or GCP - we cover multi-cloud implementation.
- You lack dedicated DevOps tooling - we include lightweight patterns that work with existing CI/CD.
Our learners span roles - Systems Engineers, Cloud Administrators, Release Managers, Site Reliability Engineers, and even IT Directors implementing standardisation. The methodology is role-adaptable, tool-agnostic at the design layer, and outcome-focused. You’ll build real templates, not just copy examples. After enrollment, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Your access details and login portal instructions will be sent separately once your course materials are finalised - ensuring everything is ready for your first day of mastery.
Extensive and Detailed Course Curriculum
Module 1: Foundations of Infrastructure as Code - Understanding the DevOps imperative and where IaC fits
- From manual provisioning to declarative infrastructure
- Defining Infrastructure as Code: principles and scope
- Comparing imperative vs declarative configuration
- The cost of configuration drift and how IaC prevents it
- Idempotency and its critical role in automation
- IaC in the software delivery lifecycle
- The cultural shift required for IaC success
- Version control basics for infrastructure files
- Git workflows tailored for IaC repositories
- Branching strategies for safe infrastructure changes
- Pull request standards for IaC reviews
- Integrating IaC into team collaboration
- Common anti-patterns and how to avoid them
- Security implications of storing secrets in code
Module 2: Core IaC Principles and Design Patterns - Modularity: writing reusable and composable configurations
- Single source of truth for environment definitions
- Environment parity: dev, staging, prod consistency
- Immutable infrastructure vs mutable changes
- Designing for predictability and repeatability
- Tagging strategies for resource governance
- Naming conventions that scale
- Configuration lifecycle management
- Declarative design with clear intent
- Drift detection and enforcement mechanisms
- Blueprinting: creating golden templates
- Handling dependencies between resources
- Managing state effectively and securely
- Idempotency in practice across cloud platforms
- Testing assumptions before deployment
Module 3: Terraform Fundamentals and Configuration - Why Terraform dominates the IaC landscape
- Installing and configuring Terraform CLI
- Understanding the Terraform configuration language (HCL)
- Writing your first resource block
- Providers: connecting Terraform to AWS, Azure, GCP
- Data sources and their role in dynamic references
- Variables and input validation
- Output values for sharing results across modules
- Locals for intermediate value computation
- Terraform state: what it is and why it matters
- Remote state storage with versioning
- Locking state to prevent race conditions
- Importing existing resources into Terraform
- Handling lifecycle rules for resource management
- Taint and replace strategies for forced recreation
Module 4: Terraform Advanced Patterns and Workflows - Writing modular Terraform: root, child, and shared modules
- Creating reusable, parameterised modules
- Module versioning with semantic versioning
- Remote module sources (Git, Terraform Registry)
- Workspaces for environment isolation
- Dynamic blocks and for_each loops
- Conditional expressions in configuration
- Handling complex data structures (maps, lists, objects)
- Expression evaluation and error handling
- Pre-flight planning with terraform plan
- Reviewing execution plans for safety
- Automated apply with approval gates
- Destroy workflows and backup strategies
- Policy as Code with Sentinel (basic integration)
- Cost estimation with Terraform Cloud
Module 5: CloudFormation and Pulumi Deep Dive - When to use CloudFormation vs Terraform
- CloudFormation template anatomy (JSON/YAML)
- Defining resources, parameters, and outputs
- Nested stacks for complex environments
- Change sets for safe updates
- Rollback mechanisms and failure recovery
- Stack policies for protecting critical resources
- Custom resources with Lambda-backed handlers
- Introducing Pulumi: infrastructure as real code
- Using Python, TypeScript, or Go for IaC
- Comparing Pulumi to Terraform workflows
- State management in Pulumi
- Preview, update, and destroy in Pulumi
- Secrets management across all three tools
- Choosing the right tool for your organisation
Module 6: Configuration Management Integration - Differentiating IaC from CM (Terraform vs Ansible)
- Using Ansible for post-provisioning configuration
- Integrating Ansible playbooks into Terraform
- Executing remote exec commands with Terraform
- Packer for immutable image creation
- Creating AMIs, VHDs, and container images
- Passing metadata from Terraform to Packer
- Managing configuration drift post-deployment
- Enforcing configuration with periodic checks
- Automating patching cycles with scheduled runs
- Desired state enforcement through convergence
- Agent-based vs agentless models
- Idempotent script design for safe re-runs
- Logging and reporting configuration changes
- Integrating with monitoring systems
Module 7: CI/CD for Infrastructure Pipelines - Designing CI/CD pipelines for IaC
- Git-triggered workflows for infrastructure changes
- Linting infrastructure code with Checkov and tflint
- Validating templates before deployment
- Unit testing infrastructure logic
- Automated plan generation in pull requests
- Semantic commit messages for IaC
- Branch protection rules for mainline safety
- Automated approval workflows
- Handling secrets in CI environments
- Using environment variables securely
- Deploying across stages: dev → staging → prod
- Canary and blue-green deployment for infrastructure
- Automated rollback procedures
- Post-deployment validation hooks
Module 8: Security and Compliance Automation - Shift-left security in IaC pipelines
- Static analysis for security vulnerabilities
- SAST tools: Checkov, tfsec, Terrascan
- Detecting misconfigured S3 buckets, security groups
- Preventing public database exposure
- Enforcing encryption at rest and in transit
- Tagging for chargeback and compliance
- Automated compliance reporting
- AWS Config, Azure Policy, GCP Org Policy integration
- Creating custom policy packs
- Remediation workflows for policy violations
- Role-based access control for IaC operations
- Least privilege for service accounts
- Audit logging for infrastructure changes
- Tracking who changed what and when
Module 9: State Management and Collaboration - Centralised vs local state trade-offs
- Using Terraform Cloud for state and collaboration
- Setting up Terraform Enterprise (remote operations)
- Team access policies and RBAC
- Notification integrations (Slack, email, MS Teams)
- Workspace management at scale
- State locking across distributed teams
- Handling partial state corruption
- State backup and disaster recovery
- Refreshing state from real infrastructure
- Importing large environments efficiently
- Refactoring without triggering destroy
- Handling legacy infrastructure migration
- Multi-environment state organisation
- Using outputs for cross-environment references
Module 10: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid IaC Strategies - Challenges of multi-cloud infrastructure
- Provider-agnostic design patterns
- Using Terraform to manage AWS, Azure, GCP together
- Shared configuration modules across clouds
- Handling provider-specific features
- Defining region-specific variables and data
- Unified naming and tagging across clouds
- Disaster recovery across regions and clouds
- Backup and replication strategies
- Cost visibility and optimisation per cloud
- Observability with centralised logging
- Using Pulumi for cross-cloud abstractions
- Hybrid IaC: cloud + on-prem integration
- Managing Kubernetes clusters across environments
- Standardising network topologies globally
Module 11: Kubernetes and Container Infrastructure - Managing EKS, AKS, GKE with Terraform
- Defining VPCs, subnets, and load balancers for clusters
- Configuring IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA)
- Deploying managed Kubernetes services
- Bootstrapping cluster add-ons with IaC
- Integrating Helm charts into Terraform
- Deploying with Helm provider
- Managing container registries (ECR, ACR, GCR)
- Securing image pull credentials
- Auto-scaling groups and node pools
- Defining network policies as code
- Provisioning ingress controllers
- Managing persistent storage dynamically
- Backup strategies for etcd and volumes
- Declarative namespace and RBAC management
Module 12: Policy as Code and Governance - From manual compliance to automated enforcement
- Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego basics
- Writing policies for Terraform plans
- Integrating OPA with CI pipelines
- Preventing unapproved instance types
- Enforcing encryption standards
- Validating regional compliance
- Terraform Sentinel policies (legacy and current use)
- Custom policy rules for cost control
- Generating compliance reports automatically
- Policy testing and versioning
- Management of policy libraries
- Enabling self-service with guardrails
- Role-based policy enforcement
- Alerting on policy violations in real time
Module 13: Observability and Monitoring Integration - Automating monitoring setup with IaC
- Provisioning CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
- Creating alerting policies as code
- Setting up dashboards for infrastructure KPIs
- Tracking SLOs and error budgets
- Integrating logs, metrics, traces
- Configuring distributed tracing
- Automating alert notifications
- Using Terraform to manage alerting rules
- Setting up uptime checks and synthetic monitoring
- Capacity forecasting with historical metrics
- Automating scale-up triggers
- Correlating deployments with performance drops
- Linking incidents to infrastructure changes
- Building observability into CI/CD
Module 14: Advanced Terraform Techniques - Provider aliases for multi-region configurations
- Using null_resource and local_exec effectively
- Provisioners: when to use and when to avoid
- External data sources for dynamic inputs
- Custom validation rules with preconditions
- Postconditions for post-deploy verification
- Using call() in modules for dynamic behaviour
- Complex conditional module inclusion
- Directory structure for large-scale deployments
- Backend configuration for remote state
- Using S3 + DynamoDB for locking
- Managing provider versions and constraints
- Dependency graph visualisation
- Using terraform console for debugging
- Performance optimisation for large states
Module 15: Real-World Project Implementation - Project 1: Deploy a 3-tier web application with IaC
- Designing network architecture (VPCs, subnets, routing)
- Provisioning web, app, and database tiers
- Setting up auto-scaling groups
- Configuring load balancers and health checks
- Securing data in transit and at rest
- Implementing backup and recovery
- Project 2: Multi-environment deployment pipeline
- Creating dev, staging, prod workspaces
- Automating environment promotion
- Implementing approval gates
- Validating drift before apply
- Project 3: Compliant, auditable infrastructure
- Enforcing SOC2-like controls via code
- Generating audit trails and compliance reports
Module 16: Migration Strategies and Legacy Integration - Assessing existing infrastructure for IaC readiness
- Creating an IaC adoption roadmap
- Prioritising environments for conversion
- Incremental migration: one service at a time
- Handling legacy systems without full automation
- Wrapping VMs with configuration management
- Using IaC for net-new services immediately
- Creating hybrid operational models
- Training teams on new workflows
- Establishing governance councils
- Documenting decision records (ADRs)
- Measuring IaC maturity over time
- Handling organisational resistance
- Securing executive buy-in
- Demonstrating ROI with metrics
Module 17: Certification and Next Steps - Final assessment: deploy a secure, scalable infrastructure
- Reviewing your implementation against best practices
- Submitting your project for evaluation
- Receiving detailed feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Using your certificate in job applications
- Preparing for advanced certifications (e.g. Terraform Associate)
- Building a personal IaC portfolio
- Contributing to open-source IaC templates
- Leading IaC adoption in your organisation
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Staying current with IaC trends and updates
- Accessing our alumni community for networking
- Receiving future course updates indefinitely
Module 1: Foundations of Infrastructure as Code - Understanding the DevOps imperative and where IaC fits
- From manual provisioning to declarative infrastructure
- Defining Infrastructure as Code: principles and scope
- Comparing imperative vs declarative configuration
- The cost of configuration drift and how IaC prevents it
- Idempotency and its critical role in automation
- IaC in the software delivery lifecycle
- The cultural shift required for IaC success
- Version control basics for infrastructure files
- Git workflows tailored for IaC repositories
- Branching strategies for safe infrastructure changes
- Pull request standards for IaC reviews
- Integrating IaC into team collaboration
- Common anti-patterns and how to avoid them
- Security implications of storing secrets in code
Module 2: Core IaC Principles and Design Patterns - Modularity: writing reusable and composable configurations
- Single source of truth for environment definitions
- Environment parity: dev, staging, prod consistency
- Immutable infrastructure vs mutable changes
- Designing for predictability and repeatability
- Tagging strategies for resource governance
- Naming conventions that scale
- Configuration lifecycle management
- Declarative design with clear intent
- Drift detection and enforcement mechanisms
- Blueprinting: creating golden templates
- Handling dependencies between resources
- Managing state effectively and securely
- Idempotency in practice across cloud platforms
- Testing assumptions before deployment
Module 3: Terraform Fundamentals and Configuration - Why Terraform dominates the IaC landscape
- Installing and configuring Terraform CLI
- Understanding the Terraform configuration language (HCL)
- Writing your first resource block
- Providers: connecting Terraform to AWS, Azure, GCP
- Data sources and their role in dynamic references
- Variables and input validation
- Output values for sharing results across modules
- Locals for intermediate value computation
- Terraform state: what it is and why it matters
- Remote state storage with versioning
- Locking state to prevent race conditions
- Importing existing resources into Terraform
- Handling lifecycle rules for resource management
- Taint and replace strategies for forced recreation
Module 4: Terraform Advanced Patterns and Workflows - Writing modular Terraform: root, child, and shared modules
- Creating reusable, parameterised modules
- Module versioning with semantic versioning
- Remote module sources (Git, Terraform Registry)
- Workspaces for environment isolation
- Dynamic blocks and for_each loops
- Conditional expressions in configuration
- Handling complex data structures (maps, lists, objects)
- Expression evaluation and error handling
- Pre-flight planning with terraform plan
- Reviewing execution plans for safety
- Automated apply with approval gates
- Destroy workflows and backup strategies
- Policy as Code with Sentinel (basic integration)
- Cost estimation with Terraform Cloud
Module 5: CloudFormation and Pulumi Deep Dive - When to use CloudFormation vs Terraform
- CloudFormation template anatomy (JSON/YAML)
- Defining resources, parameters, and outputs
- Nested stacks for complex environments
- Change sets for safe updates
- Rollback mechanisms and failure recovery
- Stack policies for protecting critical resources
- Custom resources with Lambda-backed handlers
- Introducing Pulumi: infrastructure as real code
- Using Python, TypeScript, or Go for IaC
- Comparing Pulumi to Terraform workflows
- State management in Pulumi
- Preview, update, and destroy in Pulumi
- Secrets management across all three tools
- Choosing the right tool for your organisation
Module 6: Configuration Management Integration - Differentiating IaC from CM (Terraform vs Ansible)
- Using Ansible for post-provisioning configuration
- Integrating Ansible playbooks into Terraform
- Executing remote exec commands with Terraform
- Packer for immutable image creation
- Creating AMIs, VHDs, and container images
- Passing metadata from Terraform to Packer
- Managing configuration drift post-deployment
- Enforcing configuration with periodic checks
- Automating patching cycles with scheduled runs
- Desired state enforcement through convergence
- Agent-based vs agentless models
- Idempotent script design for safe re-runs
- Logging and reporting configuration changes
- Integrating with monitoring systems
Module 7: CI/CD for Infrastructure Pipelines - Designing CI/CD pipelines for IaC
- Git-triggered workflows for infrastructure changes
- Linting infrastructure code with Checkov and tflint
- Validating templates before deployment
- Unit testing infrastructure logic
- Automated plan generation in pull requests
- Semantic commit messages for IaC
- Branch protection rules for mainline safety
- Automated approval workflows
- Handling secrets in CI environments
- Using environment variables securely
- Deploying across stages: dev → staging → prod
- Canary and blue-green deployment for infrastructure
- Automated rollback procedures
- Post-deployment validation hooks
Module 8: Security and Compliance Automation - Shift-left security in IaC pipelines
- Static analysis for security vulnerabilities
- SAST tools: Checkov, tfsec, Terrascan
- Detecting misconfigured S3 buckets, security groups
- Preventing public database exposure
- Enforcing encryption at rest and in transit
- Tagging for chargeback and compliance
- Automated compliance reporting
- AWS Config, Azure Policy, GCP Org Policy integration
- Creating custom policy packs
- Remediation workflows for policy violations
- Role-based access control for IaC operations
- Least privilege for service accounts
- Audit logging for infrastructure changes
- Tracking who changed what and when
Module 9: State Management and Collaboration - Centralised vs local state trade-offs
- Using Terraform Cloud for state and collaboration
- Setting up Terraform Enterprise (remote operations)
- Team access policies and RBAC
- Notification integrations (Slack, email, MS Teams)
- Workspace management at scale
- State locking across distributed teams
- Handling partial state corruption
- State backup and disaster recovery
- Refreshing state from real infrastructure
- Importing large environments efficiently
- Refactoring without triggering destroy
- Handling legacy infrastructure migration
- Multi-environment state organisation
- Using outputs for cross-environment references
Module 10: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid IaC Strategies - Challenges of multi-cloud infrastructure
- Provider-agnostic design patterns
- Using Terraform to manage AWS, Azure, GCP together
- Shared configuration modules across clouds
- Handling provider-specific features
- Defining region-specific variables and data
- Unified naming and tagging across clouds
- Disaster recovery across regions and clouds
- Backup and replication strategies
- Cost visibility and optimisation per cloud
- Observability with centralised logging
- Using Pulumi for cross-cloud abstractions
- Hybrid IaC: cloud + on-prem integration
- Managing Kubernetes clusters across environments
- Standardising network topologies globally
Module 11: Kubernetes and Container Infrastructure - Managing EKS, AKS, GKE with Terraform
- Defining VPCs, subnets, and load balancers for clusters
- Configuring IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA)
- Deploying managed Kubernetes services
- Bootstrapping cluster add-ons with IaC
- Integrating Helm charts into Terraform
- Deploying with Helm provider
- Managing container registries (ECR, ACR, GCR)
- Securing image pull credentials
- Auto-scaling groups and node pools
- Defining network policies as code
- Provisioning ingress controllers
- Managing persistent storage dynamically
- Backup strategies for etcd and volumes
- Declarative namespace and RBAC management
Module 12: Policy as Code and Governance - From manual compliance to automated enforcement
- Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego basics
- Writing policies for Terraform plans
- Integrating OPA with CI pipelines
- Preventing unapproved instance types
- Enforcing encryption standards
- Validating regional compliance
- Terraform Sentinel policies (legacy and current use)
- Custom policy rules for cost control
- Generating compliance reports automatically
- Policy testing and versioning
- Management of policy libraries
- Enabling self-service with guardrails
- Role-based policy enforcement
- Alerting on policy violations in real time
Module 13: Observability and Monitoring Integration - Automating monitoring setup with IaC
- Provisioning CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
- Creating alerting policies as code
- Setting up dashboards for infrastructure KPIs
- Tracking SLOs and error budgets
- Integrating logs, metrics, traces
- Configuring distributed tracing
- Automating alert notifications
- Using Terraform to manage alerting rules
- Setting up uptime checks and synthetic monitoring
- Capacity forecasting with historical metrics
- Automating scale-up triggers
- Correlating deployments with performance drops
- Linking incidents to infrastructure changes
- Building observability into CI/CD
Module 14: Advanced Terraform Techniques - Provider aliases for multi-region configurations
- Using null_resource and local_exec effectively
- Provisioners: when to use and when to avoid
- External data sources for dynamic inputs
- Custom validation rules with preconditions
- Postconditions for post-deploy verification
- Using call() in modules for dynamic behaviour
- Complex conditional module inclusion
- Directory structure for large-scale deployments
- Backend configuration for remote state
- Using S3 + DynamoDB for locking
- Managing provider versions and constraints
- Dependency graph visualisation
- Using terraform console for debugging
- Performance optimisation for large states
Module 15: Real-World Project Implementation - Project 1: Deploy a 3-tier web application with IaC
- Designing network architecture (VPCs, subnets, routing)
- Provisioning web, app, and database tiers
- Setting up auto-scaling groups
- Configuring load balancers and health checks
- Securing data in transit and at rest
- Implementing backup and recovery
- Project 2: Multi-environment deployment pipeline
- Creating dev, staging, prod workspaces
- Automating environment promotion
- Implementing approval gates
- Validating drift before apply
- Project 3: Compliant, auditable infrastructure
- Enforcing SOC2-like controls via code
- Generating audit trails and compliance reports
Module 16: Migration Strategies and Legacy Integration - Assessing existing infrastructure for IaC readiness
- Creating an IaC adoption roadmap
- Prioritising environments for conversion
- Incremental migration: one service at a time
- Handling legacy systems without full automation
- Wrapping VMs with configuration management
- Using IaC for net-new services immediately
- Creating hybrid operational models
- Training teams on new workflows
- Establishing governance councils
- Documenting decision records (ADRs)
- Measuring IaC maturity over time
- Handling organisational resistance
- Securing executive buy-in
- Demonstrating ROI with metrics
Module 17: Certification and Next Steps - Final assessment: deploy a secure, scalable infrastructure
- Reviewing your implementation against best practices
- Submitting your project for evaluation
- Receiving detailed feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Using your certificate in job applications
- Preparing for advanced certifications (e.g. Terraform Associate)
- Building a personal IaC portfolio
- Contributing to open-source IaC templates
- Leading IaC adoption in your organisation
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Staying current with IaC trends and updates
- Accessing our alumni community for networking
- Receiving future course updates indefinitely
- Modularity: writing reusable and composable configurations
- Single source of truth for environment definitions
- Environment parity: dev, staging, prod consistency
- Immutable infrastructure vs mutable changes
- Designing for predictability and repeatability
- Tagging strategies for resource governance
- Naming conventions that scale
- Configuration lifecycle management
- Declarative design with clear intent
- Drift detection and enforcement mechanisms
- Blueprinting: creating golden templates
- Handling dependencies between resources
- Managing state effectively and securely
- Idempotency in practice across cloud platforms
- Testing assumptions before deployment
Module 3: Terraform Fundamentals and Configuration - Why Terraform dominates the IaC landscape
- Installing and configuring Terraform CLI
- Understanding the Terraform configuration language (HCL)
- Writing your first resource block
- Providers: connecting Terraform to AWS, Azure, GCP
- Data sources and their role in dynamic references
- Variables and input validation
- Output values for sharing results across modules
- Locals for intermediate value computation
- Terraform state: what it is and why it matters
- Remote state storage with versioning
- Locking state to prevent race conditions
- Importing existing resources into Terraform
- Handling lifecycle rules for resource management
- Taint and replace strategies for forced recreation
Module 4: Terraform Advanced Patterns and Workflows - Writing modular Terraform: root, child, and shared modules
- Creating reusable, parameterised modules
- Module versioning with semantic versioning
- Remote module sources (Git, Terraform Registry)
- Workspaces for environment isolation
- Dynamic blocks and for_each loops
- Conditional expressions in configuration
- Handling complex data structures (maps, lists, objects)
- Expression evaluation and error handling
- Pre-flight planning with terraform plan
- Reviewing execution plans for safety
- Automated apply with approval gates
- Destroy workflows and backup strategies
- Policy as Code with Sentinel (basic integration)
- Cost estimation with Terraform Cloud
Module 5: CloudFormation and Pulumi Deep Dive - When to use CloudFormation vs Terraform
- CloudFormation template anatomy (JSON/YAML)
- Defining resources, parameters, and outputs
- Nested stacks for complex environments
- Change sets for safe updates
- Rollback mechanisms and failure recovery
- Stack policies for protecting critical resources
- Custom resources with Lambda-backed handlers
- Introducing Pulumi: infrastructure as real code
- Using Python, TypeScript, or Go for IaC
- Comparing Pulumi to Terraform workflows
- State management in Pulumi
- Preview, update, and destroy in Pulumi
- Secrets management across all three tools
- Choosing the right tool for your organisation
Module 6: Configuration Management Integration - Differentiating IaC from CM (Terraform vs Ansible)
- Using Ansible for post-provisioning configuration
- Integrating Ansible playbooks into Terraform
- Executing remote exec commands with Terraform
- Packer for immutable image creation
- Creating AMIs, VHDs, and container images
- Passing metadata from Terraform to Packer
- Managing configuration drift post-deployment
- Enforcing configuration with periodic checks
- Automating patching cycles with scheduled runs
- Desired state enforcement through convergence
- Agent-based vs agentless models
- Idempotent script design for safe re-runs
- Logging and reporting configuration changes
- Integrating with monitoring systems
Module 7: CI/CD for Infrastructure Pipelines - Designing CI/CD pipelines for IaC
- Git-triggered workflows for infrastructure changes
- Linting infrastructure code with Checkov and tflint
- Validating templates before deployment
- Unit testing infrastructure logic
- Automated plan generation in pull requests
- Semantic commit messages for IaC
- Branch protection rules for mainline safety
- Automated approval workflows
- Handling secrets in CI environments
- Using environment variables securely
- Deploying across stages: dev → staging → prod
- Canary and blue-green deployment for infrastructure
- Automated rollback procedures
- Post-deployment validation hooks
Module 8: Security and Compliance Automation - Shift-left security in IaC pipelines
- Static analysis for security vulnerabilities
- SAST tools: Checkov, tfsec, Terrascan
- Detecting misconfigured S3 buckets, security groups
- Preventing public database exposure
- Enforcing encryption at rest and in transit
- Tagging for chargeback and compliance
- Automated compliance reporting
- AWS Config, Azure Policy, GCP Org Policy integration
- Creating custom policy packs
- Remediation workflows for policy violations
- Role-based access control for IaC operations
- Least privilege for service accounts
- Audit logging for infrastructure changes
- Tracking who changed what and when
Module 9: State Management and Collaboration - Centralised vs local state trade-offs
- Using Terraform Cloud for state and collaboration
- Setting up Terraform Enterprise (remote operations)
- Team access policies and RBAC
- Notification integrations (Slack, email, MS Teams)
- Workspace management at scale
- State locking across distributed teams
- Handling partial state corruption
- State backup and disaster recovery
- Refreshing state from real infrastructure
- Importing large environments efficiently
- Refactoring without triggering destroy
- Handling legacy infrastructure migration
- Multi-environment state organisation
- Using outputs for cross-environment references
Module 10: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid IaC Strategies - Challenges of multi-cloud infrastructure
- Provider-agnostic design patterns
- Using Terraform to manage AWS, Azure, GCP together
- Shared configuration modules across clouds
- Handling provider-specific features
- Defining region-specific variables and data
- Unified naming and tagging across clouds
- Disaster recovery across regions and clouds
- Backup and replication strategies
- Cost visibility and optimisation per cloud
- Observability with centralised logging
- Using Pulumi for cross-cloud abstractions
- Hybrid IaC: cloud + on-prem integration
- Managing Kubernetes clusters across environments
- Standardising network topologies globally
Module 11: Kubernetes and Container Infrastructure - Managing EKS, AKS, GKE with Terraform
- Defining VPCs, subnets, and load balancers for clusters
- Configuring IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA)
- Deploying managed Kubernetes services
- Bootstrapping cluster add-ons with IaC
- Integrating Helm charts into Terraform
- Deploying with Helm provider
- Managing container registries (ECR, ACR, GCR)
- Securing image pull credentials
- Auto-scaling groups and node pools
- Defining network policies as code
- Provisioning ingress controllers
- Managing persistent storage dynamically
- Backup strategies for etcd and volumes
- Declarative namespace and RBAC management
Module 12: Policy as Code and Governance - From manual compliance to automated enforcement
- Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego basics
- Writing policies for Terraform plans
- Integrating OPA with CI pipelines
- Preventing unapproved instance types
- Enforcing encryption standards
- Validating regional compliance
- Terraform Sentinel policies (legacy and current use)
- Custom policy rules for cost control
- Generating compliance reports automatically
- Policy testing and versioning
- Management of policy libraries
- Enabling self-service with guardrails
- Role-based policy enforcement
- Alerting on policy violations in real time
Module 13: Observability and Monitoring Integration - Automating monitoring setup with IaC
- Provisioning CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
- Creating alerting policies as code
- Setting up dashboards for infrastructure KPIs
- Tracking SLOs and error budgets
- Integrating logs, metrics, traces
- Configuring distributed tracing
- Automating alert notifications
- Using Terraform to manage alerting rules
- Setting up uptime checks and synthetic monitoring
- Capacity forecasting with historical metrics
- Automating scale-up triggers
- Correlating deployments with performance drops
- Linking incidents to infrastructure changes
- Building observability into CI/CD
Module 14: Advanced Terraform Techniques - Provider aliases for multi-region configurations
- Using null_resource and local_exec effectively
- Provisioners: when to use and when to avoid
- External data sources for dynamic inputs
- Custom validation rules with preconditions
- Postconditions for post-deploy verification
- Using call() in modules for dynamic behaviour
- Complex conditional module inclusion
- Directory structure for large-scale deployments
- Backend configuration for remote state
- Using S3 + DynamoDB for locking
- Managing provider versions and constraints
- Dependency graph visualisation
- Using terraform console for debugging
- Performance optimisation for large states
Module 15: Real-World Project Implementation - Project 1: Deploy a 3-tier web application with IaC
- Designing network architecture (VPCs, subnets, routing)
- Provisioning web, app, and database tiers
- Setting up auto-scaling groups
- Configuring load balancers and health checks
- Securing data in transit and at rest
- Implementing backup and recovery
- Project 2: Multi-environment deployment pipeline
- Creating dev, staging, prod workspaces
- Automating environment promotion
- Implementing approval gates
- Validating drift before apply
- Project 3: Compliant, auditable infrastructure
- Enforcing SOC2-like controls via code
- Generating audit trails and compliance reports
Module 16: Migration Strategies and Legacy Integration - Assessing existing infrastructure for IaC readiness
- Creating an IaC adoption roadmap
- Prioritising environments for conversion
- Incremental migration: one service at a time
- Handling legacy systems without full automation
- Wrapping VMs with configuration management
- Using IaC for net-new services immediately
- Creating hybrid operational models
- Training teams on new workflows
- Establishing governance councils
- Documenting decision records (ADRs)
- Measuring IaC maturity over time
- Handling organisational resistance
- Securing executive buy-in
- Demonstrating ROI with metrics
Module 17: Certification and Next Steps - Final assessment: deploy a secure, scalable infrastructure
- Reviewing your implementation against best practices
- Submitting your project for evaluation
- Receiving detailed feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Using your certificate in job applications
- Preparing for advanced certifications (e.g. Terraform Associate)
- Building a personal IaC portfolio
- Contributing to open-source IaC templates
- Leading IaC adoption in your organisation
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Staying current with IaC trends and updates
- Accessing our alumni community for networking
- Receiving future course updates indefinitely
- Writing modular Terraform: root, child, and shared modules
- Creating reusable, parameterised modules
- Module versioning with semantic versioning
- Remote module sources (Git, Terraform Registry)
- Workspaces for environment isolation
- Dynamic blocks and for_each loops
- Conditional expressions in configuration
- Handling complex data structures (maps, lists, objects)
- Expression evaluation and error handling
- Pre-flight planning with terraform plan
- Reviewing execution plans for safety
- Automated apply with approval gates
- Destroy workflows and backup strategies
- Policy as Code with Sentinel (basic integration)
- Cost estimation with Terraform Cloud
Module 5: CloudFormation and Pulumi Deep Dive - When to use CloudFormation vs Terraform
- CloudFormation template anatomy (JSON/YAML)
- Defining resources, parameters, and outputs
- Nested stacks for complex environments
- Change sets for safe updates
- Rollback mechanisms and failure recovery
- Stack policies for protecting critical resources
- Custom resources with Lambda-backed handlers
- Introducing Pulumi: infrastructure as real code
- Using Python, TypeScript, or Go for IaC
- Comparing Pulumi to Terraform workflows
- State management in Pulumi
- Preview, update, and destroy in Pulumi
- Secrets management across all three tools
- Choosing the right tool for your organisation
Module 6: Configuration Management Integration - Differentiating IaC from CM (Terraform vs Ansible)
- Using Ansible for post-provisioning configuration
- Integrating Ansible playbooks into Terraform
- Executing remote exec commands with Terraform
- Packer for immutable image creation
- Creating AMIs, VHDs, and container images
- Passing metadata from Terraform to Packer
- Managing configuration drift post-deployment
- Enforcing configuration with periodic checks
- Automating patching cycles with scheduled runs
- Desired state enforcement through convergence
- Agent-based vs agentless models
- Idempotent script design for safe re-runs
- Logging and reporting configuration changes
- Integrating with monitoring systems
Module 7: CI/CD for Infrastructure Pipelines - Designing CI/CD pipelines for IaC
- Git-triggered workflows for infrastructure changes
- Linting infrastructure code with Checkov and tflint
- Validating templates before deployment
- Unit testing infrastructure logic
- Automated plan generation in pull requests
- Semantic commit messages for IaC
- Branch protection rules for mainline safety
- Automated approval workflows
- Handling secrets in CI environments
- Using environment variables securely
- Deploying across stages: dev → staging → prod
- Canary and blue-green deployment for infrastructure
- Automated rollback procedures
- Post-deployment validation hooks
Module 8: Security and Compliance Automation - Shift-left security in IaC pipelines
- Static analysis for security vulnerabilities
- SAST tools: Checkov, tfsec, Terrascan
- Detecting misconfigured S3 buckets, security groups
- Preventing public database exposure
- Enforcing encryption at rest and in transit
- Tagging for chargeback and compliance
- Automated compliance reporting
- AWS Config, Azure Policy, GCP Org Policy integration
- Creating custom policy packs
- Remediation workflows for policy violations
- Role-based access control for IaC operations
- Least privilege for service accounts
- Audit logging for infrastructure changes
- Tracking who changed what and when
Module 9: State Management and Collaboration - Centralised vs local state trade-offs
- Using Terraform Cloud for state and collaboration
- Setting up Terraform Enterprise (remote operations)
- Team access policies and RBAC
- Notification integrations (Slack, email, MS Teams)
- Workspace management at scale
- State locking across distributed teams
- Handling partial state corruption
- State backup and disaster recovery
- Refreshing state from real infrastructure
- Importing large environments efficiently
- Refactoring without triggering destroy
- Handling legacy infrastructure migration
- Multi-environment state organisation
- Using outputs for cross-environment references
Module 10: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid IaC Strategies - Challenges of multi-cloud infrastructure
- Provider-agnostic design patterns
- Using Terraform to manage AWS, Azure, GCP together
- Shared configuration modules across clouds
- Handling provider-specific features
- Defining region-specific variables and data
- Unified naming and tagging across clouds
- Disaster recovery across regions and clouds
- Backup and replication strategies
- Cost visibility and optimisation per cloud
- Observability with centralised logging
- Using Pulumi for cross-cloud abstractions
- Hybrid IaC: cloud + on-prem integration
- Managing Kubernetes clusters across environments
- Standardising network topologies globally
Module 11: Kubernetes and Container Infrastructure - Managing EKS, AKS, GKE with Terraform
- Defining VPCs, subnets, and load balancers for clusters
- Configuring IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA)
- Deploying managed Kubernetes services
- Bootstrapping cluster add-ons with IaC
- Integrating Helm charts into Terraform
- Deploying with Helm provider
- Managing container registries (ECR, ACR, GCR)
- Securing image pull credentials
- Auto-scaling groups and node pools
- Defining network policies as code
- Provisioning ingress controllers
- Managing persistent storage dynamically
- Backup strategies for etcd and volumes
- Declarative namespace and RBAC management
Module 12: Policy as Code and Governance - From manual compliance to automated enforcement
- Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego basics
- Writing policies for Terraform plans
- Integrating OPA with CI pipelines
- Preventing unapproved instance types
- Enforcing encryption standards
- Validating regional compliance
- Terraform Sentinel policies (legacy and current use)
- Custom policy rules for cost control
- Generating compliance reports automatically
- Policy testing and versioning
- Management of policy libraries
- Enabling self-service with guardrails
- Role-based policy enforcement
- Alerting on policy violations in real time
Module 13: Observability and Monitoring Integration - Automating monitoring setup with IaC
- Provisioning CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
- Creating alerting policies as code
- Setting up dashboards for infrastructure KPIs
- Tracking SLOs and error budgets
- Integrating logs, metrics, traces
- Configuring distributed tracing
- Automating alert notifications
- Using Terraform to manage alerting rules
- Setting up uptime checks and synthetic monitoring
- Capacity forecasting with historical metrics
- Automating scale-up triggers
- Correlating deployments with performance drops
- Linking incidents to infrastructure changes
- Building observability into CI/CD
Module 14: Advanced Terraform Techniques - Provider aliases for multi-region configurations
- Using null_resource and local_exec effectively
- Provisioners: when to use and when to avoid
- External data sources for dynamic inputs
- Custom validation rules with preconditions
- Postconditions for post-deploy verification
- Using call() in modules for dynamic behaviour
- Complex conditional module inclusion
- Directory structure for large-scale deployments
- Backend configuration for remote state
- Using S3 + DynamoDB for locking
- Managing provider versions and constraints
- Dependency graph visualisation
- Using terraform console for debugging
- Performance optimisation for large states
Module 15: Real-World Project Implementation - Project 1: Deploy a 3-tier web application with IaC
- Designing network architecture (VPCs, subnets, routing)
- Provisioning web, app, and database tiers
- Setting up auto-scaling groups
- Configuring load balancers and health checks
- Securing data in transit and at rest
- Implementing backup and recovery
- Project 2: Multi-environment deployment pipeline
- Creating dev, staging, prod workspaces
- Automating environment promotion
- Implementing approval gates
- Validating drift before apply
- Project 3: Compliant, auditable infrastructure
- Enforcing SOC2-like controls via code
- Generating audit trails and compliance reports
Module 16: Migration Strategies and Legacy Integration - Assessing existing infrastructure for IaC readiness
- Creating an IaC adoption roadmap
- Prioritising environments for conversion
- Incremental migration: one service at a time
- Handling legacy systems without full automation
- Wrapping VMs with configuration management
- Using IaC for net-new services immediately
- Creating hybrid operational models
- Training teams on new workflows
- Establishing governance councils
- Documenting decision records (ADRs)
- Measuring IaC maturity over time
- Handling organisational resistance
- Securing executive buy-in
- Demonstrating ROI with metrics
Module 17: Certification and Next Steps - Final assessment: deploy a secure, scalable infrastructure
- Reviewing your implementation against best practices
- Submitting your project for evaluation
- Receiving detailed feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Using your certificate in job applications
- Preparing for advanced certifications (e.g. Terraform Associate)
- Building a personal IaC portfolio
- Contributing to open-source IaC templates
- Leading IaC adoption in your organisation
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Staying current with IaC trends and updates
- Accessing our alumni community for networking
- Receiving future course updates indefinitely
- Differentiating IaC from CM (Terraform vs Ansible)
- Using Ansible for post-provisioning configuration
- Integrating Ansible playbooks into Terraform
- Executing remote exec commands with Terraform
- Packer for immutable image creation
- Creating AMIs, VHDs, and container images
- Passing metadata from Terraform to Packer
- Managing configuration drift post-deployment
- Enforcing configuration with periodic checks
- Automating patching cycles with scheduled runs
- Desired state enforcement through convergence
- Agent-based vs agentless models
- Idempotent script design for safe re-runs
- Logging and reporting configuration changes
- Integrating with monitoring systems
Module 7: CI/CD for Infrastructure Pipelines - Designing CI/CD pipelines for IaC
- Git-triggered workflows for infrastructure changes
- Linting infrastructure code with Checkov and tflint
- Validating templates before deployment
- Unit testing infrastructure logic
- Automated plan generation in pull requests
- Semantic commit messages for IaC
- Branch protection rules for mainline safety
- Automated approval workflows
- Handling secrets in CI environments
- Using environment variables securely
- Deploying across stages: dev → staging → prod
- Canary and blue-green deployment for infrastructure
- Automated rollback procedures
- Post-deployment validation hooks
Module 8: Security and Compliance Automation - Shift-left security in IaC pipelines
- Static analysis for security vulnerabilities
- SAST tools: Checkov, tfsec, Terrascan
- Detecting misconfigured S3 buckets, security groups
- Preventing public database exposure
- Enforcing encryption at rest and in transit
- Tagging for chargeback and compliance
- Automated compliance reporting
- AWS Config, Azure Policy, GCP Org Policy integration
- Creating custom policy packs
- Remediation workflows for policy violations
- Role-based access control for IaC operations
- Least privilege for service accounts
- Audit logging for infrastructure changes
- Tracking who changed what and when
Module 9: State Management and Collaboration - Centralised vs local state trade-offs
- Using Terraform Cloud for state and collaboration
- Setting up Terraform Enterprise (remote operations)
- Team access policies and RBAC
- Notification integrations (Slack, email, MS Teams)
- Workspace management at scale
- State locking across distributed teams
- Handling partial state corruption
- State backup and disaster recovery
- Refreshing state from real infrastructure
- Importing large environments efficiently
- Refactoring without triggering destroy
- Handling legacy infrastructure migration
- Multi-environment state organisation
- Using outputs for cross-environment references
Module 10: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid IaC Strategies - Challenges of multi-cloud infrastructure
- Provider-agnostic design patterns
- Using Terraform to manage AWS, Azure, GCP together
- Shared configuration modules across clouds
- Handling provider-specific features
- Defining region-specific variables and data
- Unified naming and tagging across clouds
- Disaster recovery across regions and clouds
- Backup and replication strategies
- Cost visibility and optimisation per cloud
- Observability with centralised logging
- Using Pulumi for cross-cloud abstractions
- Hybrid IaC: cloud + on-prem integration
- Managing Kubernetes clusters across environments
- Standardising network topologies globally
Module 11: Kubernetes and Container Infrastructure - Managing EKS, AKS, GKE with Terraform
- Defining VPCs, subnets, and load balancers for clusters
- Configuring IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA)
- Deploying managed Kubernetes services
- Bootstrapping cluster add-ons with IaC
- Integrating Helm charts into Terraform
- Deploying with Helm provider
- Managing container registries (ECR, ACR, GCR)
- Securing image pull credentials
- Auto-scaling groups and node pools
- Defining network policies as code
- Provisioning ingress controllers
- Managing persistent storage dynamically
- Backup strategies for etcd and volumes
- Declarative namespace and RBAC management
Module 12: Policy as Code and Governance - From manual compliance to automated enforcement
- Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego basics
- Writing policies for Terraform plans
- Integrating OPA with CI pipelines
- Preventing unapproved instance types
- Enforcing encryption standards
- Validating regional compliance
- Terraform Sentinel policies (legacy and current use)
- Custom policy rules for cost control
- Generating compliance reports automatically
- Policy testing and versioning
- Management of policy libraries
- Enabling self-service with guardrails
- Role-based policy enforcement
- Alerting on policy violations in real time
Module 13: Observability and Monitoring Integration - Automating monitoring setup with IaC
- Provisioning CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
- Creating alerting policies as code
- Setting up dashboards for infrastructure KPIs
- Tracking SLOs and error budgets
- Integrating logs, metrics, traces
- Configuring distributed tracing
- Automating alert notifications
- Using Terraform to manage alerting rules
- Setting up uptime checks and synthetic monitoring
- Capacity forecasting with historical metrics
- Automating scale-up triggers
- Correlating deployments with performance drops
- Linking incidents to infrastructure changes
- Building observability into CI/CD
Module 14: Advanced Terraform Techniques - Provider aliases for multi-region configurations
- Using null_resource and local_exec effectively
- Provisioners: when to use and when to avoid
- External data sources for dynamic inputs
- Custom validation rules with preconditions
- Postconditions for post-deploy verification
- Using call() in modules for dynamic behaviour
- Complex conditional module inclusion
- Directory structure for large-scale deployments
- Backend configuration for remote state
- Using S3 + DynamoDB for locking
- Managing provider versions and constraints
- Dependency graph visualisation
- Using terraform console for debugging
- Performance optimisation for large states
Module 15: Real-World Project Implementation - Project 1: Deploy a 3-tier web application with IaC
- Designing network architecture (VPCs, subnets, routing)
- Provisioning web, app, and database tiers
- Setting up auto-scaling groups
- Configuring load balancers and health checks
- Securing data in transit and at rest
- Implementing backup and recovery
- Project 2: Multi-environment deployment pipeline
- Creating dev, staging, prod workspaces
- Automating environment promotion
- Implementing approval gates
- Validating drift before apply
- Project 3: Compliant, auditable infrastructure
- Enforcing SOC2-like controls via code
- Generating audit trails and compliance reports
Module 16: Migration Strategies and Legacy Integration - Assessing existing infrastructure for IaC readiness
- Creating an IaC adoption roadmap
- Prioritising environments for conversion
- Incremental migration: one service at a time
- Handling legacy systems without full automation
- Wrapping VMs with configuration management
- Using IaC for net-new services immediately
- Creating hybrid operational models
- Training teams on new workflows
- Establishing governance councils
- Documenting decision records (ADRs)
- Measuring IaC maturity over time
- Handling organisational resistance
- Securing executive buy-in
- Demonstrating ROI with metrics
Module 17: Certification and Next Steps - Final assessment: deploy a secure, scalable infrastructure
- Reviewing your implementation against best practices
- Submitting your project for evaluation
- Receiving detailed feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Using your certificate in job applications
- Preparing for advanced certifications (e.g. Terraform Associate)
- Building a personal IaC portfolio
- Contributing to open-source IaC templates
- Leading IaC adoption in your organisation
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Staying current with IaC trends and updates
- Accessing our alumni community for networking
- Receiving future course updates indefinitely
- Shift-left security in IaC pipelines
- Static analysis for security vulnerabilities
- SAST tools: Checkov, tfsec, Terrascan
- Detecting misconfigured S3 buckets, security groups
- Preventing public database exposure
- Enforcing encryption at rest and in transit
- Tagging for chargeback and compliance
- Automated compliance reporting
- AWS Config, Azure Policy, GCP Org Policy integration
- Creating custom policy packs
- Remediation workflows for policy violations
- Role-based access control for IaC operations
- Least privilege for service accounts
- Audit logging for infrastructure changes
- Tracking who changed what and when
Module 9: State Management and Collaboration - Centralised vs local state trade-offs
- Using Terraform Cloud for state and collaboration
- Setting up Terraform Enterprise (remote operations)
- Team access policies and RBAC
- Notification integrations (Slack, email, MS Teams)
- Workspace management at scale
- State locking across distributed teams
- Handling partial state corruption
- State backup and disaster recovery
- Refreshing state from real infrastructure
- Importing large environments efficiently
- Refactoring without triggering destroy
- Handling legacy infrastructure migration
- Multi-environment state organisation
- Using outputs for cross-environment references
Module 10: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid IaC Strategies - Challenges of multi-cloud infrastructure
- Provider-agnostic design patterns
- Using Terraform to manage AWS, Azure, GCP together
- Shared configuration modules across clouds
- Handling provider-specific features
- Defining region-specific variables and data
- Unified naming and tagging across clouds
- Disaster recovery across regions and clouds
- Backup and replication strategies
- Cost visibility and optimisation per cloud
- Observability with centralised logging
- Using Pulumi for cross-cloud abstractions
- Hybrid IaC: cloud + on-prem integration
- Managing Kubernetes clusters across environments
- Standardising network topologies globally
Module 11: Kubernetes and Container Infrastructure - Managing EKS, AKS, GKE with Terraform
- Defining VPCs, subnets, and load balancers for clusters
- Configuring IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA)
- Deploying managed Kubernetes services
- Bootstrapping cluster add-ons with IaC
- Integrating Helm charts into Terraform
- Deploying with Helm provider
- Managing container registries (ECR, ACR, GCR)
- Securing image pull credentials
- Auto-scaling groups and node pools
- Defining network policies as code
- Provisioning ingress controllers
- Managing persistent storage dynamically
- Backup strategies for etcd and volumes
- Declarative namespace and RBAC management
Module 12: Policy as Code and Governance - From manual compliance to automated enforcement
- Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego basics
- Writing policies for Terraform plans
- Integrating OPA with CI pipelines
- Preventing unapproved instance types
- Enforcing encryption standards
- Validating regional compliance
- Terraform Sentinel policies (legacy and current use)
- Custom policy rules for cost control
- Generating compliance reports automatically
- Policy testing and versioning
- Management of policy libraries
- Enabling self-service with guardrails
- Role-based policy enforcement
- Alerting on policy violations in real time
Module 13: Observability and Monitoring Integration - Automating monitoring setup with IaC
- Provisioning CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
- Creating alerting policies as code
- Setting up dashboards for infrastructure KPIs
- Tracking SLOs and error budgets
- Integrating logs, metrics, traces
- Configuring distributed tracing
- Automating alert notifications
- Using Terraform to manage alerting rules
- Setting up uptime checks and synthetic monitoring
- Capacity forecasting with historical metrics
- Automating scale-up triggers
- Correlating deployments with performance drops
- Linking incidents to infrastructure changes
- Building observability into CI/CD
Module 14: Advanced Terraform Techniques - Provider aliases for multi-region configurations
- Using null_resource and local_exec effectively
- Provisioners: when to use and when to avoid
- External data sources for dynamic inputs
- Custom validation rules with preconditions
- Postconditions for post-deploy verification
- Using call() in modules for dynamic behaviour
- Complex conditional module inclusion
- Directory structure for large-scale deployments
- Backend configuration for remote state
- Using S3 + DynamoDB for locking
- Managing provider versions and constraints
- Dependency graph visualisation
- Using terraform console for debugging
- Performance optimisation for large states
Module 15: Real-World Project Implementation - Project 1: Deploy a 3-tier web application with IaC
- Designing network architecture (VPCs, subnets, routing)
- Provisioning web, app, and database tiers
- Setting up auto-scaling groups
- Configuring load balancers and health checks
- Securing data in transit and at rest
- Implementing backup and recovery
- Project 2: Multi-environment deployment pipeline
- Creating dev, staging, prod workspaces
- Automating environment promotion
- Implementing approval gates
- Validating drift before apply
- Project 3: Compliant, auditable infrastructure
- Enforcing SOC2-like controls via code
- Generating audit trails and compliance reports
Module 16: Migration Strategies and Legacy Integration - Assessing existing infrastructure for IaC readiness
- Creating an IaC adoption roadmap
- Prioritising environments for conversion
- Incremental migration: one service at a time
- Handling legacy systems without full automation
- Wrapping VMs with configuration management
- Using IaC for net-new services immediately
- Creating hybrid operational models
- Training teams on new workflows
- Establishing governance councils
- Documenting decision records (ADRs)
- Measuring IaC maturity over time
- Handling organisational resistance
- Securing executive buy-in
- Demonstrating ROI with metrics
Module 17: Certification and Next Steps - Final assessment: deploy a secure, scalable infrastructure
- Reviewing your implementation against best practices
- Submitting your project for evaluation
- Receiving detailed feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Using your certificate in job applications
- Preparing for advanced certifications (e.g. Terraform Associate)
- Building a personal IaC portfolio
- Contributing to open-source IaC templates
- Leading IaC adoption in your organisation
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Staying current with IaC trends and updates
- Accessing our alumni community for networking
- Receiving future course updates indefinitely
- Challenges of multi-cloud infrastructure
- Provider-agnostic design patterns
- Using Terraform to manage AWS, Azure, GCP together
- Shared configuration modules across clouds
- Handling provider-specific features
- Defining region-specific variables and data
- Unified naming and tagging across clouds
- Disaster recovery across regions and clouds
- Backup and replication strategies
- Cost visibility and optimisation per cloud
- Observability with centralised logging
- Using Pulumi for cross-cloud abstractions
- Hybrid IaC: cloud + on-prem integration
- Managing Kubernetes clusters across environments
- Standardising network topologies globally
Module 11: Kubernetes and Container Infrastructure - Managing EKS, AKS, GKE with Terraform
- Defining VPCs, subnets, and load balancers for clusters
- Configuring IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA)
- Deploying managed Kubernetes services
- Bootstrapping cluster add-ons with IaC
- Integrating Helm charts into Terraform
- Deploying with Helm provider
- Managing container registries (ECR, ACR, GCR)
- Securing image pull credentials
- Auto-scaling groups and node pools
- Defining network policies as code
- Provisioning ingress controllers
- Managing persistent storage dynamically
- Backup strategies for etcd and volumes
- Declarative namespace and RBAC management
Module 12: Policy as Code and Governance - From manual compliance to automated enforcement
- Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego basics
- Writing policies for Terraform plans
- Integrating OPA with CI pipelines
- Preventing unapproved instance types
- Enforcing encryption standards
- Validating regional compliance
- Terraform Sentinel policies (legacy and current use)
- Custom policy rules for cost control
- Generating compliance reports automatically
- Policy testing and versioning
- Management of policy libraries
- Enabling self-service with guardrails
- Role-based policy enforcement
- Alerting on policy violations in real time
Module 13: Observability and Monitoring Integration - Automating monitoring setup with IaC
- Provisioning CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
- Creating alerting policies as code
- Setting up dashboards for infrastructure KPIs
- Tracking SLOs and error budgets
- Integrating logs, metrics, traces
- Configuring distributed tracing
- Automating alert notifications
- Using Terraform to manage alerting rules
- Setting up uptime checks and synthetic monitoring
- Capacity forecasting with historical metrics
- Automating scale-up triggers
- Correlating deployments with performance drops
- Linking incidents to infrastructure changes
- Building observability into CI/CD
Module 14: Advanced Terraform Techniques - Provider aliases for multi-region configurations
- Using null_resource and local_exec effectively
- Provisioners: when to use and when to avoid
- External data sources for dynamic inputs
- Custom validation rules with preconditions
- Postconditions for post-deploy verification
- Using call() in modules for dynamic behaviour
- Complex conditional module inclusion
- Directory structure for large-scale deployments
- Backend configuration for remote state
- Using S3 + DynamoDB for locking
- Managing provider versions and constraints
- Dependency graph visualisation
- Using terraform console for debugging
- Performance optimisation for large states
Module 15: Real-World Project Implementation - Project 1: Deploy a 3-tier web application with IaC
- Designing network architecture (VPCs, subnets, routing)
- Provisioning web, app, and database tiers
- Setting up auto-scaling groups
- Configuring load balancers and health checks
- Securing data in transit and at rest
- Implementing backup and recovery
- Project 2: Multi-environment deployment pipeline
- Creating dev, staging, prod workspaces
- Automating environment promotion
- Implementing approval gates
- Validating drift before apply
- Project 3: Compliant, auditable infrastructure
- Enforcing SOC2-like controls via code
- Generating audit trails and compliance reports
Module 16: Migration Strategies and Legacy Integration - Assessing existing infrastructure for IaC readiness
- Creating an IaC adoption roadmap
- Prioritising environments for conversion
- Incremental migration: one service at a time
- Handling legacy systems without full automation
- Wrapping VMs with configuration management
- Using IaC for net-new services immediately
- Creating hybrid operational models
- Training teams on new workflows
- Establishing governance councils
- Documenting decision records (ADRs)
- Measuring IaC maturity over time
- Handling organisational resistance
- Securing executive buy-in
- Demonstrating ROI with metrics
Module 17: Certification and Next Steps - Final assessment: deploy a secure, scalable infrastructure
- Reviewing your implementation against best practices
- Submitting your project for evaluation
- Receiving detailed feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Using your certificate in job applications
- Preparing for advanced certifications (e.g. Terraform Associate)
- Building a personal IaC portfolio
- Contributing to open-source IaC templates
- Leading IaC adoption in your organisation
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Staying current with IaC trends and updates
- Accessing our alumni community for networking
- Receiving future course updates indefinitely
- From manual compliance to automated enforcement
- Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego basics
- Writing policies for Terraform plans
- Integrating OPA with CI pipelines
- Preventing unapproved instance types
- Enforcing encryption standards
- Validating regional compliance
- Terraform Sentinel policies (legacy and current use)
- Custom policy rules for cost control
- Generating compliance reports automatically
- Policy testing and versioning
- Management of policy libraries
- Enabling self-service with guardrails
- Role-based policy enforcement
- Alerting on policy violations in real time
Module 13: Observability and Monitoring Integration - Automating monitoring setup with IaC
- Provisioning CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
- Creating alerting policies as code
- Setting up dashboards for infrastructure KPIs
- Tracking SLOs and error budgets
- Integrating logs, metrics, traces
- Configuring distributed tracing
- Automating alert notifications
- Using Terraform to manage alerting rules
- Setting up uptime checks and synthetic monitoring
- Capacity forecasting with historical metrics
- Automating scale-up triggers
- Correlating deployments with performance drops
- Linking incidents to infrastructure changes
- Building observability into CI/CD
Module 14: Advanced Terraform Techniques - Provider aliases for multi-region configurations
- Using null_resource and local_exec effectively
- Provisioners: when to use and when to avoid
- External data sources for dynamic inputs
- Custom validation rules with preconditions
- Postconditions for post-deploy verification
- Using call() in modules for dynamic behaviour
- Complex conditional module inclusion
- Directory structure for large-scale deployments
- Backend configuration for remote state
- Using S3 + DynamoDB for locking
- Managing provider versions and constraints
- Dependency graph visualisation
- Using terraform console for debugging
- Performance optimisation for large states
Module 15: Real-World Project Implementation - Project 1: Deploy a 3-tier web application with IaC
- Designing network architecture (VPCs, subnets, routing)
- Provisioning web, app, and database tiers
- Setting up auto-scaling groups
- Configuring load balancers and health checks
- Securing data in transit and at rest
- Implementing backup and recovery
- Project 2: Multi-environment deployment pipeline
- Creating dev, staging, prod workspaces
- Automating environment promotion
- Implementing approval gates
- Validating drift before apply
- Project 3: Compliant, auditable infrastructure
- Enforcing SOC2-like controls via code
- Generating audit trails and compliance reports
Module 16: Migration Strategies and Legacy Integration - Assessing existing infrastructure for IaC readiness
- Creating an IaC adoption roadmap
- Prioritising environments for conversion
- Incremental migration: one service at a time
- Handling legacy systems without full automation
- Wrapping VMs with configuration management
- Using IaC for net-new services immediately
- Creating hybrid operational models
- Training teams on new workflows
- Establishing governance councils
- Documenting decision records (ADRs)
- Measuring IaC maturity over time
- Handling organisational resistance
- Securing executive buy-in
- Demonstrating ROI with metrics
Module 17: Certification and Next Steps - Final assessment: deploy a secure, scalable infrastructure
- Reviewing your implementation against best practices
- Submitting your project for evaluation
- Receiving detailed feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Using your certificate in job applications
- Preparing for advanced certifications (e.g. Terraform Associate)
- Building a personal IaC portfolio
- Contributing to open-source IaC templates
- Leading IaC adoption in your organisation
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Staying current with IaC trends and updates
- Accessing our alumni community for networking
- Receiving future course updates indefinitely
- Provider aliases for multi-region configurations
- Using null_resource and local_exec effectively
- Provisioners: when to use and when to avoid
- External data sources for dynamic inputs
- Custom validation rules with preconditions
- Postconditions for post-deploy verification
- Using call() in modules for dynamic behaviour
- Complex conditional module inclusion
- Directory structure for large-scale deployments
- Backend configuration for remote state
- Using S3 + DynamoDB for locking
- Managing provider versions and constraints
- Dependency graph visualisation
- Using terraform console for debugging
- Performance optimisation for large states
Module 15: Real-World Project Implementation - Project 1: Deploy a 3-tier web application with IaC
- Designing network architecture (VPCs, subnets, routing)
- Provisioning web, app, and database tiers
- Setting up auto-scaling groups
- Configuring load balancers and health checks
- Securing data in transit and at rest
- Implementing backup and recovery
- Project 2: Multi-environment deployment pipeline
- Creating dev, staging, prod workspaces
- Automating environment promotion
- Implementing approval gates
- Validating drift before apply
- Project 3: Compliant, auditable infrastructure
- Enforcing SOC2-like controls via code
- Generating audit trails and compliance reports
Module 16: Migration Strategies and Legacy Integration - Assessing existing infrastructure for IaC readiness
- Creating an IaC adoption roadmap
- Prioritising environments for conversion
- Incremental migration: one service at a time
- Handling legacy systems without full automation
- Wrapping VMs with configuration management
- Using IaC for net-new services immediately
- Creating hybrid operational models
- Training teams on new workflows
- Establishing governance councils
- Documenting decision records (ADRs)
- Measuring IaC maturity over time
- Handling organisational resistance
- Securing executive buy-in
- Demonstrating ROI with metrics
Module 17: Certification and Next Steps - Final assessment: deploy a secure, scalable infrastructure
- Reviewing your implementation against best practices
- Submitting your project for evaluation
- Receiving detailed feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Using your certificate in job applications
- Preparing for advanced certifications (e.g. Terraform Associate)
- Building a personal IaC portfolio
- Contributing to open-source IaC templates
- Leading IaC adoption in your organisation
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Staying current with IaC trends and updates
- Accessing our alumni community for networking
- Receiving future course updates indefinitely
- Assessing existing infrastructure for IaC readiness
- Creating an IaC adoption roadmap
- Prioritising environments for conversion
- Incremental migration: one service at a time
- Handling legacy systems without full automation
- Wrapping VMs with configuration management
- Using IaC for net-new services immediately
- Creating hybrid operational models
- Training teams on new workflows
- Establishing governance councils
- Documenting decision records (ADRs)
- Measuring IaC maturity over time
- Handling organisational resistance
- Securing executive buy-in
- Demonstrating ROI with metrics