Mastering Terraform for Cloud Infrastructure Automation
You're under pressure. Deadlines are tight. Infrastructure failures cost your team hours, and manual provisioning isn't scaling. You know automation is the answer, but jumping into Terraform without a proven roadmap feels risky, time-consuming, and full of hidden traps. Every minute spent troubleshooting configuration drift or rebuilding environments is a minute lost from innovation. You need to move fast, safely, and with confidence. The cloud waits for no one, and your organisation is already pushing for faster deployments, tighter compliance, and cost-efficient scaling. This is where Mastering Terraform for Cloud Infrastructure Automation becomes your leverage. This isn't just another technical guide. It's a battle-tested blueprint used by infrastructure engineers, DevOps leads, and cloud architects to go from fragmented scripts to fully automated, auditable, and repeatable cloud environments - in as little as 21 days. Take Ana Rodriguez, Senior Cloud Engineer at a Fortune 500 financial services firm. She completed this program while managing a live migration to AWS. Within three weeks, she had codified 80% of her team’s infrastructure, reduced deployment errors by 94%, and presented a reproducible IaC framework that earned her a promotion to Cloud Automation Lead. Imagine walking into your next sprint review with a fully version-controlled, modular, and secure infrastructure stack - all defined, tested, and ready to deploy with one command. No guesswork. No last-minute firefighting. Just precision, predictability, and professional recognition. You’re not just learning Terraform. You’re mastering a career-defining skill that positions you as the go-to expert in one of the most in-demand areas of modern cloud engineering. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Self-paced, immediate access, zero time pressure. This course is designed for working professionals who need flexibility without sacrificing results. You begin the moment you’re ready, progress at your own speed, and access all materials on any device - including mobile. What You Get
- Self-paced learning with no fixed start dates or deadlines
- Immediate online access to the full curriculum upon registration
- Typical completion in 4 to 6 weeks with 5–7 hours per week
- First meaningful results in under 10 days - including your first production-grade module
- Lifetime access to all course content, including future updates at no extra cost
- 24/7 access from any country, on any modern browser or mobile device
- Mobile-friendly design for learning during commutes, breaks, or downtime
- Direct guidance and feedback from certified Terraform practitioners and cloud architects
- Structured progress tracking to keep you on course and motivated
- A Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service, globally recognised for technical excellence and compliance with enterprise-grade standards
This certificate validates your mastery of infrastructure as code, verified through practical assessments and real-world projects. It’s the kind of credential that stands out to hiring managers, auditors, and promotion boards. Zero-Risk Enrollment Promise
You’re protected by our 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you complete the first two modules and don’t feel dramatically more confident in your Terraform skills, simply contact support for a full refund - no questions asked. There are no hidden fees, no surprise charges, and no recurring billing. We accept Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal - payment is secure and processed through encrypted gateways trusted by enterprises worldwide. After enrollment, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Your course access details will be delivered separately once your profile is fully activated and your learning path is prepared. Will This Work For Me?
Yes - even if you’ve struggled with Terraform before, come from a non-developer background, or work in a highly regulated environment. This course works even if: - You’ve read the official documentation but still can’t deploy a working module
- You’re a sysadmin transitioning to DevOps and need concrete, step-by-step workflows
- You’re overwhelmed by state management, remote backends, or module versioning
- You work in finance, healthcare, or government and need audit-ready, compliant configurations
- You’re time-crunched and need just the high-leverage patterns, not theory
Our learners include SREs at tier-1 banks, platform engineers at fast-growing tech firms, and cloud consultants delivering enterprise automation solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You’re not alone. You’ll get instructor support at every turn, with clear guidance on debugging, best practices, and real deployment scenarios. This isn’t theory. It’s the exact framework used to automate infrastructure for systems handling millions of transactions daily.
Module 1: Foundations of Infrastructure as Code - Understanding the evolution of infrastructure automation
- Defining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and its business value
- Comparing Terraform to Ansible, CloudFormation, and Pulumi
- The core principles of declarative configuration
- Setting up a consistent local development environment
- Installing and verifying Terraform CLI across operating systems
- Understanding Terraform versioning and release cycles
- Navigating the official documentation effectively
- Introduction to HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL)
- Basic syntax: variables, outputs, and blocks
- Writing your first configuration file
- Initialising a Terraform working directory
- Understanding the terraform init command and plugin architecture
- Executing terraform plan to preview changes
- Running terraform apply to create real resources
- Reading and interpreting execution plans
- Destroying infrastructure safely with terraform destroy
- Managing dependencies between resources
- Inspecting state with terraform show
- Using terraform validate to catch errors early
Module 2: Core Terraform Workflow & State Management - The Terraform execution workflow: plan, apply, destroy
- Understanding the purpose and structure of terraform.tfstate
- Locating and protecting sensitive state data
- State locking and concurrency controls
- Using terraform refresh to reconcile state
- Importing existing resources into state
- Practical examples of resource import workflows
- State hygiene: when to recreate vs. update
- Managing multiple environments with workspaces
- Best practices for naming and isolating workspaces
- Limitations of workspaces and when to avoid them
- Handling drift detection and response strategies
- Using data sources to reference external resources
- Configuring data sources for AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Combining data sources with resources in one configuration
- Understanding implicit vs. explicit dependencies
- Using depends_on to enforce correct order
- Managing configuration drift in production
- Auditing state changes over time
- Backups and recovery strategies for state files
Module 3: Variables, Outputs, and Configuration Reusability - Defining input variables with type constraints
- Setting default values and validation rules
- Passing variables via CLI, files, and environment
- Using terraform.tfvars for environment-specific settings
- Variable file naming conventions for staging and production
- Using variable sensitivity flags to protect secrets
- Defining output values for cross-module communication
- Exporting IDs, endpoints, and network details
- Using output interpolation in complex expressions
- Creating dynamic outputs based on conditions
- Using locals to simplify repetitive expressions
- Difference between locals and variables
- Structuring configurations using expressions and functions
- String manipulation functions in HCL
- Mathematical and logical operations in Terraform
- Conditional expressions with ternary operators
- Using the coalesce function for fallback values
- Working with collections: lists, maps, and sets
- Iterating with for expressions
- Using for_each and count in resource blocks
Module 4: Modular Infrastructure Design - Why modularity is essential for enterprise IaC
- Designing reusable, shareable modules
- Creating a module with inputs, outputs, and resources
- Calling modules from root configurations
- Passing variables into modules securely
- Versioning modules using Git tags and registries
- Consuming public modules from the Terraform Registry
- Finding and evaluating third-party modules
- Building private modules for internal use
- Storing modules in version control systems
- Using module sources from local paths, Git, and HTTP
- Naming conventions for modules and providers
- Managing module dependencies
- Version constraints and pinning strategies
- Upgrading modules without breaking changes
- Documenting modules for team adoption
- Best practices for input validation in modules
- Returning complex output structures
- Creating nested module architectures
- Designing modules for multi-cloud use
Module 5: Provider Configuration & Cloud Integration - Understanding Terraform providers and their role
- Configuring AWS provider with credentials and regions
- Using IAM roles and policies for secure access
- Setting up Azure provider with service principals
- Configuring GCP provider using service accounts
- Managing multiple providers in a single configuration
- Aliasing providers for multi-region deployments
- Using conditional provider blocks
- Version pinning for provider stability
- Exploring provider-specific data sources
- Connecting to Kubernetes clusters using the Kubernetes provider
- Configuring Helm charts with the Helm provider
- Integrating external SaaS platforms via API providers
- Setting up DNS providers for route53, Cloudflare
- Automating certificate provisioning with ACME provider
- Using the random provider for unique identifiers
- Best practices for provider block organisation
- Handling provider timeouts and retries
- Debugging provider authentication failures
- Auditing provider usage across configurations
Module 6: Remote State & Backend Strategies - Why local state doesn't scale in teams
- Introducing backend configuration in Terraform
- Using Terraform Cloud as a backend
- Configuring S3 backend with DynamoDB for locking
- Setting up Azure Storage backend with blob locking
- Using GCS backend for Google Cloud environments
- Enabling encryption for state at rest
- Managing backend credentials securely
- Structuring backend configurations per environment
- Splitting state by service, team, or region
- Using remote state data sources to share outputs
- Cross-referencing state between environments
- Securing access to remote state with IAM policies
- Monitoring state access and audit trails
- Automating backend creation using Terraform itself
- Handling state migration between backends
- Using partial configuration in backend blocks
- Debugging backend connection issues
- Integrating remote state with CI/CD pipelines
- Best practices for state isolation and ownership
Module 7: Advanced Configuration Patterns - Using dynamic blocks for flexible resource configuration
- Creating conditional resources with count and for_each
- Managing large collections with for expressions
- Nesting modules within conditional logic
- Generating configurations from templates
- Using templatefile and template_dir functions
- Injecting dynamic content into cloud-init scripts
- Managing user data for EC2, VMs, and containers
- Building lookup tables with maps and objects
- Using try() function to handle null or missing values
- Handling errors gracefully in expressions
- Working with sensitive outputs and suppression
- Best practices for secret management with external tools
- Integrating with HashiCorp Vault for dynamic secrets
- Using environment variables without exposure
- Managing configuration drift in automated environments
- Enforcing immutability through configuration
- Pattern: immutable infrastructure with full replacement
- Pattern: blue-green deployments using Terraform
- Pattern: canary rollouts with partial updates
Module 8: Security, Compliance & Governance - Principle of least privilege in provider configuration
- Hardening IAM roles and service accounts
- Using Terraform Sentinel policies for governance
- Writing policy-as-code rules for resource constraints
- Enforcing tag requirements across clouds
- Blocking insecure configurations pre-apply
- Integrating with Terraform Cloud for policy checks
- Setting up mandatory approvals for production changes
- Creating custom policy sets for your organisation
- Scanning configurations with tfsec for security issues
- Integrating checkov for compliance validation
- Using Terrascan for enterprise policy enforcement
- Generating compliance reports from scans
- Encrypting sensitive data with KMS, Cloud KMS, or GCP KMS
- Storing credentials outside of configuration files
- Managing TLS certificates using ACME or private CAs
- Network security: configuring NACLs, NSGs, and VPC firewalls
- Enforcing private subnets and no-public-IP policies
- Implementing logging and monitoring hooks
- Documenting compliance posture for auditors
Module 9: CI/CD & Automation Pipelines - Integrating Terraform into CI/CD workflows
- Using GitHub Actions for IaC automation
- Setting up GitLab CI pipelines for Terraform
- Configuring AWS CodePipeline for IaC deployments
- Automating terraform fmt and validate on push
- Running terraform plan in pull requests
- Displaying plan output for peer review
- Automated approval gates for production apply
- Using Atlantis for collaborative Terraform workflows
- Setting up lock management in team environments
- Handling merge conflicts in Terraform code
- Structuring repositories for multiple environments
- Monorepo vs. polyrepo strategies for IaC
- Environment promotion through pipeline stages
- Automated testing of infrastructure changes
- Unit testing with Terratest in Go
- Integration testing with mock providers
- Using destroy pipelines for ephemeral environments
- Scheduling automatic cleanup of test infra
- Monitoring pipeline success and failure rates
Module 10: Testing, Validation & Quality Assurance - Importance of testing in infrastructure code
- Types of testing: unit, integration, end-to-end
- Using terraform validate for syntax checks
- Static code analysis with tflint
- Configuring custom rules in tflint
- Automating linting in pre-commit hooks
- Introduction to Terratest for automated testing
- Writing Go-based tests for Terraform modules
- Testing resource creation and outputs
- Verifying security group rules and network paths
- Running tests in isolated AWS accounts
- Using Docker to isolate test environments
- Generating test fixtures and golden files
- Mocking cloud APIs for faster feedback
- Setting up test coverage reporting
- Fail-fast strategies in validation pipelines
- Testing rollback and destroy operations
- Validating module interoperability
- Automated documentation generation from tests
- Integrating QA gates into deployment workflows
Module 11: High Availability & Disaster Recovery - Designing infrastructure for fault tolerance
- Multi-AZ and multi-region deployment patterns
- Configuring auto-scaling groups with health checks
- Setting up load balancers across regions
- Database replication using RDS, Cloud SQL, Cosmos DB
- Backup window and retention policies
- Automated snapshot workflows
- Testing restore procedures from backups
- Failover mechanisms for databases and caches
- Using Route 53 for DNS failover
- Setting up health checks and routing policies
- Active-passive and active-active topologies
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) planning
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO) configuration
- Documenting disaster recovery runbooks
- Automating DR drills with Terraform
- Isolating DR environments from production
- Testing infrastructure rebuild from scratch
- Using immutable images for faster recovery
- Verifying data consistency after failover
Module 12: Cost Optimisation & Resource Management - Monitoring cloud spend through IaC
- Using cost estimation tools like Infracost
- Integrating Infracost into CI/CD pipelines
- Displaying cost impact in pull requests
- Identifying overprovisioned resources
- Right-sizing EC2 instances, VMs, and clusters
- Using spot instances and preemptible VMs safely
- Automating shutdown of non-production resources
- Scheduling start-stop cycles with Lambda or Cloud Functions
- Tagging resources for cost allocation
- Enforcing naming conventions for finance teams
- Generating cost reports from tags
- Using Terraform to enforce budget alerts
- Setting up billing alarms with cloud-native tools
- Deleting orphaned or unused resources
- Identifying dangling volumes, IPs, and DNS records
- Automating cleanup with nightly jobs
- Using lifecycle rules for S3, blobs, and disks
- Designing infrastructure for elasticity
- Optimising egress and data transfer costs
Module 13: Real-World Project: Multi-Cloud Web Application - Defining project requirements and success criteria
- Architecting a scalable three-tier application
- Creating VPCs, subnets, and route tables
- Configuring internet and NAT gateways
- Setting up security groups for web, app, and DB tiers
- Deploying EC2 instances with auto-scaling
- Configuring Application Load Balancer
- Provisioning RDS database with read replicas
- Enabling automated backups and maintenance
- Integrating with Elasticsearch for logging
- Setting up S3 buckets for static assets
- Configuring CloudFront CDN distributions
- Automating DNS with Route 53
- Setting up TLS with ACM certificates
- Implementing WAF rules for security
- Adding monitoring with CloudWatch and alerts
- Creating dashboards for infrastructure health
- Writing custom modules for each layer
- Testing the full stack deployment
- Destroying and redeploying for validation
Module 14: Certification & Next Steps - Preparing for the final assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and common pitfalls
- Taking the proctored exam simulation
- Submitting your capstone project for evaluation
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification on LinkedIn
- Adding credentials to your resume and portfolio
- Joining the alumni network of IaC professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and opportunities
- Staying updated with monthly technical briefings
- Participating in community challenges and sprints
- Exploring advanced topics: GitOps, Flux, ArgoCD
- Transitioning from Terraform to full platform engineering
- Building internal developer platforms (IDPs)
- Contributing to open-source IaC projects
- Mentoring junior engineers in your organisation
- Leading infrastructure modernisation initiatives
- Architecting zero-touch deployment systems
- Becoming the internal champion of automation
- Understanding the evolution of infrastructure automation
- Defining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and its business value
- Comparing Terraform to Ansible, CloudFormation, and Pulumi
- The core principles of declarative configuration
- Setting up a consistent local development environment
- Installing and verifying Terraform CLI across operating systems
- Understanding Terraform versioning and release cycles
- Navigating the official documentation effectively
- Introduction to HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL)
- Basic syntax: variables, outputs, and blocks
- Writing your first configuration file
- Initialising a Terraform working directory
- Understanding the terraform init command and plugin architecture
- Executing terraform plan to preview changes
- Running terraform apply to create real resources
- Reading and interpreting execution plans
- Destroying infrastructure safely with terraform destroy
- Managing dependencies between resources
- Inspecting state with terraform show
- Using terraform validate to catch errors early
Module 2: Core Terraform Workflow & State Management - The Terraform execution workflow: plan, apply, destroy
- Understanding the purpose and structure of terraform.tfstate
- Locating and protecting sensitive state data
- State locking and concurrency controls
- Using terraform refresh to reconcile state
- Importing existing resources into state
- Practical examples of resource import workflows
- State hygiene: when to recreate vs. update
- Managing multiple environments with workspaces
- Best practices for naming and isolating workspaces
- Limitations of workspaces and when to avoid them
- Handling drift detection and response strategies
- Using data sources to reference external resources
- Configuring data sources for AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Combining data sources with resources in one configuration
- Understanding implicit vs. explicit dependencies
- Using depends_on to enforce correct order
- Managing configuration drift in production
- Auditing state changes over time
- Backups and recovery strategies for state files
Module 3: Variables, Outputs, and Configuration Reusability - Defining input variables with type constraints
- Setting default values and validation rules
- Passing variables via CLI, files, and environment
- Using terraform.tfvars for environment-specific settings
- Variable file naming conventions for staging and production
- Using variable sensitivity flags to protect secrets
- Defining output values for cross-module communication
- Exporting IDs, endpoints, and network details
- Using output interpolation in complex expressions
- Creating dynamic outputs based on conditions
- Using locals to simplify repetitive expressions
- Difference between locals and variables
- Structuring configurations using expressions and functions
- String manipulation functions in HCL
- Mathematical and logical operations in Terraform
- Conditional expressions with ternary operators
- Using the coalesce function for fallback values
- Working with collections: lists, maps, and sets
- Iterating with for expressions
- Using for_each and count in resource blocks
Module 4: Modular Infrastructure Design - Why modularity is essential for enterprise IaC
- Designing reusable, shareable modules
- Creating a module with inputs, outputs, and resources
- Calling modules from root configurations
- Passing variables into modules securely
- Versioning modules using Git tags and registries
- Consuming public modules from the Terraform Registry
- Finding and evaluating third-party modules
- Building private modules for internal use
- Storing modules in version control systems
- Using module sources from local paths, Git, and HTTP
- Naming conventions for modules and providers
- Managing module dependencies
- Version constraints and pinning strategies
- Upgrading modules without breaking changes
- Documenting modules for team adoption
- Best practices for input validation in modules
- Returning complex output structures
- Creating nested module architectures
- Designing modules for multi-cloud use
Module 5: Provider Configuration & Cloud Integration - Understanding Terraform providers and their role
- Configuring AWS provider with credentials and regions
- Using IAM roles and policies for secure access
- Setting up Azure provider with service principals
- Configuring GCP provider using service accounts
- Managing multiple providers in a single configuration
- Aliasing providers for multi-region deployments
- Using conditional provider blocks
- Version pinning for provider stability
- Exploring provider-specific data sources
- Connecting to Kubernetes clusters using the Kubernetes provider
- Configuring Helm charts with the Helm provider
- Integrating external SaaS platforms via API providers
- Setting up DNS providers for route53, Cloudflare
- Automating certificate provisioning with ACME provider
- Using the random provider for unique identifiers
- Best practices for provider block organisation
- Handling provider timeouts and retries
- Debugging provider authentication failures
- Auditing provider usage across configurations
Module 6: Remote State & Backend Strategies - Why local state doesn't scale in teams
- Introducing backend configuration in Terraform
- Using Terraform Cloud as a backend
- Configuring S3 backend with DynamoDB for locking
- Setting up Azure Storage backend with blob locking
- Using GCS backend for Google Cloud environments
- Enabling encryption for state at rest
- Managing backend credentials securely
- Structuring backend configurations per environment
- Splitting state by service, team, or region
- Using remote state data sources to share outputs
- Cross-referencing state between environments
- Securing access to remote state with IAM policies
- Monitoring state access and audit trails
- Automating backend creation using Terraform itself
- Handling state migration between backends
- Using partial configuration in backend blocks
- Debugging backend connection issues
- Integrating remote state with CI/CD pipelines
- Best practices for state isolation and ownership
Module 7: Advanced Configuration Patterns - Using dynamic blocks for flexible resource configuration
- Creating conditional resources with count and for_each
- Managing large collections with for expressions
- Nesting modules within conditional logic
- Generating configurations from templates
- Using templatefile and template_dir functions
- Injecting dynamic content into cloud-init scripts
- Managing user data for EC2, VMs, and containers
- Building lookup tables with maps and objects
- Using try() function to handle null or missing values
- Handling errors gracefully in expressions
- Working with sensitive outputs and suppression
- Best practices for secret management with external tools
- Integrating with HashiCorp Vault for dynamic secrets
- Using environment variables without exposure
- Managing configuration drift in automated environments
- Enforcing immutability through configuration
- Pattern: immutable infrastructure with full replacement
- Pattern: blue-green deployments using Terraform
- Pattern: canary rollouts with partial updates
Module 8: Security, Compliance & Governance - Principle of least privilege in provider configuration
- Hardening IAM roles and service accounts
- Using Terraform Sentinel policies for governance
- Writing policy-as-code rules for resource constraints
- Enforcing tag requirements across clouds
- Blocking insecure configurations pre-apply
- Integrating with Terraform Cloud for policy checks
- Setting up mandatory approvals for production changes
- Creating custom policy sets for your organisation
- Scanning configurations with tfsec for security issues
- Integrating checkov for compliance validation
- Using Terrascan for enterprise policy enforcement
- Generating compliance reports from scans
- Encrypting sensitive data with KMS, Cloud KMS, or GCP KMS
- Storing credentials outside of configuration files
- Managing TLS certificates using ACME or private CAs
- Network security: configuring NACLs, NSGs, and VPC firewalls
- Enforcing private subnets and no-public-IP policies
- Implementing logging and monitoring hooks
- Documenting compliance posture for auditors
Module 9: CI/CD & Automation Pipelines - Integrating Terraform into CI/CD workflows
- Using GitHub Actions for IaC automation
- Setting up GitLab CI pipelines for Terraform
- Configuring AWS CodePipeline for IaC deployments
- Automating terraform fmt and validate on push
- Running terraform plan in pull requests
- Displaying plan output for peer review
- Automated approval gates for production apply
- Using Atlantis for collaborative Terraform workflows
- Setting up lock management in team environments
- Handling merge conflicts in Terraform code
- Structuring repositories for multiple environments
- Monorepo vs. polyrepo strategies for IaC
- Environment promotion through pipeline stages
- Automated testing of infrastructure changes
- Unit testing with Terratest in Go
- Integration testing with mock providers
- Using destroy pipelines for ephemeral environments
- Scheduling automatic cleanup of test infra
- Monitoring pipeline success and failure rates
Module 10: Testing, Validation & Quality Assurance - Importance of testing in infrastructure code
- Types of testing: unit, integration, end-to-end
- Using terraform validate for syntax checks
- Static code analysis with tflint
- Configuring custom rules in tflint
- Automating linting in pre-commit hooks
- Introduction to Terratest for automated testing
- Writing Go-based tests for Terraform modules
- Testing resource creation and outputs
- Verifying security group rules and network paths
- Running tests in isolated AWS accounts
- Using Docker to isolate test environments
- Generating test fixtures and golden files
- Mocking cloud APIs for faster feedback
- Setting up test coverage reporting
- Fail-fast strategies in validation pipelines
- Testing rollback and destroy operations
- Validating module interoperability
- Automated documentation generation from tests
- Integrating QA gates into deployment workflows
Module 11: High Availability & Disaster Recovery - Designing infrastructure for fault tolerance
- Multi-AZ and multi-region deployment patterns
- Configuring auto-scaling groups with health checks
- Setting up load balancers across regions
- Database replication using RDS, Cloud SQL, Cosmos DB
- Backup window and retention policies
- Automated snapshot workflows
- Testing restore procedures from backups
- Failover mechanisms for databases and caches
- Using Route 53 for DNS failover
- Setting up health checks and routing policies
- Active-passive and active-active topologies
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) planning
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO) configuration
- Documenting disaster recovery runbooks
- Automating DR drills with Terraform
- Isolating DR environments from production
- Testing infrastructure rebuild from scratch
- Using immutable images for faster recovery
- Verifying data consistency after failover
Module 12: Cost Optimisation & Resource Management - Monitoring cloud spend through IaC
- Using cost estimation tools like Infracost
- Integrating Infracost into CI/CD pipelines
- Displaying cost impact in pull requests
- Identifying overprovisioned resources
- Right-sizing EC2 instances, VMs, and clusters
- Using spot instances and preemptible VMs safely
- Automating shutdown of non-production resources
- Scheduling start-stop cycles with Lambda or Cloud Functions
- Tagging resources for cost allocation
- Enforcing naming conventions for finance teams
- Generating cost reports from tags
- Using Terraform to enforce budget alerts
- Setting up billing alarms with cloud-native tools
- Deleting orphaned or unused resources
- Identifying dangling volumes, IPs, and DNS records
- Automating cleanup with nightly jobs
- Using lifecycle rules for S3, blobs, and disks
- Designing infrastructure for elasticity
- Optimising egress and data transfer costs
Module 13: Real-World Project: Multi-Cloud Web Application - Defining project requirements and success criteria
- Architecting a scalable three-tier application
- Creating VPCs, subnets, and route tables
- Configuring internet and NAT gateways
- Setting up security groups for web, app, and DB tiers
- Deploying EC2 instances with auto-scaling
- Configuring Application Load Balancer
- Provisioning RDS database with read replicas
- Enabling automated backups and maintenance
- Integrating with Elasticsearch for logging
- Setting up S3 buckets for static assets
- Configuring CloudFront CDN distributions
- Automating DNS with Route 53
- Setting up TLS with ACM certificates
- Implementing WAF rules for security
- Adding monitoring with CloudWatch and alerts
- Creating dashboards for infrastructure health
- Writing custom modules for each layer
- Testing the full stack deployment
- Destroying and redeploying for validation
Module 14: Certification & Next Steps - Preparing for the final assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and common pitfalls
- Taking the proctored exam simulation
- Submitting your capstone project for evaluation
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification on LinkedIn
- Adding credentials to your resume and portfolio
- Joining the alumni network of IaC professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and opportunities
- Staying updated with monthly technical briefings
- Participating in community challenges and sprints
- Exploring advanced topics: GitOps, Flux, ArgoCD
- Transitioning from Terraform to full platform engineering
- Building internal developer platforms (IDPs)
- Contributing to open-source IaC projects
- Mentoring junior engineers in your organisation
- Leading infrastructure modernisation initiatives
- Architecting zero-touch deployment systems
- Becoming the internal champion of automation
- Defining input variables with type constraints
- Setting default values and validation rules
- Passing variables via CLI, files, and environment
- Using terraform.tfvars for environment-specific settings
- Variable file naming conventions for staging and production
- Using variable sensitivity flags to protect secrets
- Defining output values for cross-module communication
- Exporting IDs, endpoints, and network details
- Using output interpolation in complex expressions
- Creating dynamic outputs based on conditions
- Using locals to simplify repetitive expressions
- Difference between locals and variables
- Structuring configurations using expressions and functions
- String manipulation functions in HCL
- Mathematical and logical operations in Terraform
- Conditional expressions with ternary operators
- Using the coalesce function for fallback values
- Working with collections: lists, maps, and sets
- Iterating with for expressions
- Using for_each and count in resource blocks
Module 4: Modular Infrastructure Design - Why modularity is essential for enterprise IaC
- Designing reusable, shareable modules
- Creating a module with inputs, outputs, and resources
- Calling modules from root configurations
- Passing variables into modules securely
- Versioning modules using Git tags and registries
- Consuming public modules from the Terraform Registry
- Finding and evaluating third-party modules
- Building private modules for internal use
- Storing modules in version control systems
- Using module sources from local paths, Git, and HTTP
- Naming conventions for modules and providers
- Managing module dependencies
- Version constraints and pinning strategies
- Upgrading modules without breaking changes
- Documenting modules for team adoption
- Best practices for input validation in modules
- Returning complex output structures
- Creating nested module architectures
- Designing modules for multi-cloud use
Module 5: Provider Configuration & Cloud Integration - Understanding Terraform providers and their role
- Configuring AWS provider with credentials and regions
- Using IAM roles and policies for secure access
- Setting up Azure provider with service principals
- Configuring GCP provider using service accounts
- Managing multiple providers in a single configuration
- Aliasing providers for multi-region deployments
- Using conditional provider blocks
- Version pinning for provider stability
- Exploring provider-specific data sources
- Connecting to Kubernetes clusters using the Kubernetes provider
- Configuring Helm charts with the Helm provider
- Integrating external SaaS platforms via API providers
- Setting up DNS providers for route53, Cloudflare
- Automating certificate provisioning with ACME provider
- Using the random provider for unique identifiers
- Best practices for provider block organisation
- Handling provider timeouts and retries
- Debugging provider authentication failures
- Auditing provider usage across configurations
Module 6: Remote State & Backend Strategies - Why local state doesn't scale in teams
- Introducing backend configuration in Terraform
- Using Terraform Cloud as a backend
- Configuring S3 backend with DynamoDB for locking
- Setting up Azure Storage backend with blob locking
- Using GCS backend for Google Cloud environments
- Enabling encryption for state at rest
- Managing backend credentials securely
- Structuring backend configurations per environment
- Splitting state by service, team, or region
- Using remote state data sources to share outputs
- Cross-referencing state between environments
- Securing access to remote state with IAM policies
- Monitoring state access and audit trails
- Automating backend creation using Terraform itself
- Handling state migration between backends
- Using partial configuration in backend blocks
- Debugging backend connection issues
- Integrating remote state with CI/CD pipelines
- Best practices for state isolation and ownership
Module 7: Advanced Configuration Patterns - Using dynamic blocks for flexible resource configuration
- Creating conditional resources with count and for_each
- Managing large collections with for expressions
- Nesting modules within conditional logic
- Generating configurations from templates
- Using templatefile and template_dir functions
- Injecting dynamic content into cloud-init scripts
- Managing user data for EC2, VMs, and containers
- Building lookup tables with maps and objects
- Using try() function to handle null or missing values
- Handling errors gracefully in expressions
- Working with sensitive outputs and suppression
- Best practices for secret management with external tools
- Integrating with HashiCorp Vault for dynamic secrets
- Using environment variables without exposure
- Managing configuration drift in automated environments
- Enforcing immutability through configuration
- Pattern: immutable infrastructure with full replacement
- Pattern: blue-green deployments using Terraform
- Pattern: canary rollouts with partial updates
Module 8: Security, Compliance & Governance - Principle of least privilege in provider configuration
- Hardening IAM roles and service accounts
- Using Terraform Sentinel policies for governance
- Writing policy-as-code rules for resource constraints
- Enforcing tag requirements across clouds
- Blocking insecure configurations pre-apply
- Integrating with Terraform Cloud for policy checks
- Setting up mandatory approvals for production changes
- Creating custom policy sets for your organisation
- Scanning configurations with tfsec for security issues
- Integrating checkov for compliance validation
- Using Terrascan for enterprise policy enforcement
- Generating compliance reports from scans
- Encrypting sensitive data with KMS, Cloud KMS, or GCP KMS
- Storing credentials outside of configuration files
- Managing TLS certificates using ACME or private CAs
- Network security: configuring NACLs, NSGs, and VPC firewalls
- Enforcing private subnets and no-public-IP policies
- Implementing logging and monitoring hooks
- Documenting compliance posture for auditors
Module 9: CI/CD & Automation Pipelines - Integrating Terraform into CI/CD workflows
- Using GitHub Actions for IaC automation
- Setting up GitLab CI pipelines for Terraform
- Configuring AWS CodePipeline for IaC deployments
- Automating terraform fmt and validate on push
- Running terraform plan in pull requests
- Displaying plan output for peer review
- Automated approval gates for production apply
- Using Atlantis for collaborative Terraform workflows
- Setting up lock management in team environments
- Handling merge conflicts in Terraform code
- Structuring repositories for multiple environments
- Monorepo vs. polyrepo strategies for IaC
- Environment promotion through pipeline stages
- Automated testing of infrastructure changes
- Unit testing with Terratest in Go
- Integration testing with mock providers
- Using destroy pipelines for ephemeral environments
- Scheduling automatic cleanup of test infra
- Monitoring pipeline success and failure rates
Module 10: Testing, Validation & Quality Assurance - Importance of testing in infrastructure code
- Types of testing: unit, integration, end-to-end
- Using terraform validate for syntax checks
- Static code analysis with tflint
- Configuring custom rules in tflint
- Automating linting in pre-commit hooks
- Introduction to Terratest for automated testing
- Writing Go-based tests for Terraform modules
- Testing resource creation and outputs
- Verifying security group rules and network paths
- Running tests in isolated AWS accounts
- Using Docker to isolate test environments
- Generating test fixtures and golden files
- Mocking cloud APIs for faster feedback
- Setting up test coverage reporting
- Fail-fast strategies in validation pipelines
- Testing rollback and destroy operations
- Validating module interoperability
- Automated documentation generation from tests
- Integrating QA gates into deployment workflows
Module 11: High Availability & Disaster Recovery - Designing infrastructure for fault tolerance
- Multi-AZ and multi-region deployment patterns
- Configuring auto-scaling groups with health checks
- Setting up load balancers across regions
- Database replication using RDS, Cloud SQL, Cosmos DB
- Backup window and retention policies
- Automated snapshot workflows
- Testing restore procedures from backups
- Failover mechanisms for databases and caches
- Using Route 53 for DNS failover
- Setting up health checks and routing policies
- Active-passive and active-active topologies
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) planning
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO) configuration
- Documenting disaster recovery runbooks
- Automating DR drills with Terraform
- Isolating DR environments from production
- Testing infrastructure rebuild from scratch
- Using immutable images for faster recovery
- Verifying data consistency after failover
Module 12: Cost Optimisation & Resource Management - Monitoring cloud spend through IaC
- Using cost estimation tools like Infracost
- Integrating Infracost into CI/CD pipelines
- Displaying cost impact in pull requests
- Identifying overprovisioned resources
- Right-sizing EC2 instances, VMs, and clusters
- Using spot instances and preemptible VMs safely
- Automating shutdown of non-production resources
- Scheduling start-stop cycles with Lambda or Cloud Functions
- Tagging resources for cost allocation
- Enforcing naming conventions for finance teams
- Generating cost reports from tags
- Using Terraform to enforce budget alerts
- Setting up billing alarms with cloud-native tools
- Deleting orphaned or unused resources
- Identifying dangling volumes, IPs, and DNS records
- Automating cleanup with nightly jobs
- Using lifecycle rules for S3, blobs, and disks
- Designing infrastructure for elasticity
- Optimising egress and data transfer costs
Module 13: Real-World Project: Multi-Cloud Web Application - Defining project requirements and success criteria
- Architecting a scalable three-tier application
- Creating VPCs, subnets, and route tables
- Configuring internet and NAT gateways
- Setting up security groups for web, app, and DB tiers
- Deploying EC2 instances with auto-scaling
- Configuring Application Load Balancer
- Provisioning RDS database with read replicas
- Enabling automated backups and maintenance
- Integrating with Elasticsearch for logging
- Setting up S3 buckets for static assets
- Configuring CloudFront CDN distributions
- Automating DNS with Route 53
- Setting up TLS with ACM certificates
- Implementing WAF rules for security
- Adding monitoring with CloudWatch and alerts
- Creating dashboards for infrastructure health
- Writing custom modules for each layer
- Testing the full stack deployment
- Destroying and redeploying for validation
Module 14: Certification & Next Steps - Preparing for the final assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and common pitfalls
- Taking the proctored exam simulation
- Submitting your capstone project for evaluation
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification on LinkedIn
- Adding credentials to your resume and portfolio
- Joining the alumni network of IaC professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and opportunities
- Staying updated with monthly technical briefings
- Participating in community challenges and sprints
- Exploring advanced topics: GitOps, Flux, ArgoCD
- Transitioning from Terraform to full platform engineering
- Building internal developer platforms (IDPs)
- Contributing to open-source IaC projects
- Mentoring junior engineers in your organisation
- Leading infrastructure modernisation initiatives
- Architecting zero-touch deployment systems
- Becoming the internal champion of automation
- Understanding Terraform providers and their role
- Configuring AWS provider with credentials and regions
- Using IAM roles and policies for secure access
- Setting up Azure provider with service principals
- Configuring GCP provider using service accounts
- Managing multiple providers in a single configuration
- Aliasing providers for multi-region deployments
- Using conditional provider blocks
- Version pinning for provider stability
- Exploring provider-specific data sources
- Connecting to Kubernetes clusters using the Kubernetes provider
- Configuring Helm charts with the Helm provider
- Integrating external SaaS platforms via API providers
- Setting up DNS providers for route53, Cloudflare
- Automating certificate provisioning with ACME provider
- Using the random provider for unique identifiers
- Best practices for provider block organisation
- Handling provider timeouts and retries
- Debugging provider authentication failures
- Auditing provider usage across configurations
Module 6: Remote State & Backend Strategies - Why local state doesn't scale in teams
- Introducing backend configuration in Terraform
- Using Terraform Cloud as a backend
- Configuring S3 backend with DynamoDB for locking
- Setting up Azure Storage backend with blob locking
- Using GCS backend for Google Cloud environments
- Enabling encryption for state at rest
- Managing backend credentials securely
- Structuring backend configurations per environment
- Splitting state by service, team, or region
- Using remote state data sources to share outputs
- Cross-referencing state between environments
- Securing access to remote state with IAM policies
- Monitoring state access and audit trails
- Automating backend creation using Terraform itself
- Handling state migration between backends
- Using partial configuration in backend blocks
- Debugging backend connection issues
- Integrating remote state with CI/CD pipelines
- Best practices for state isolation and ownership
Module 7: Advanced Configuration Patterns - Using dynamic blocks for flexible resource configuration
- Creating conditional resources with count and for_each
- Managing large collections with for expressions
- Nesting modules within conditional logic
- Generating configurations from templates
- Using templatefile and template_dir functions
- Injecting dynamic content into cloud-init scripts
- Managing user data for EC2, VMs, and containers
- Building lookup tables with maps and objects
- Using try() function to handle null or missing values
- Handling errors gracefully in expressions
- Working with sensitive outputs and suppression
- Best practices for secret management with external tools
- Integrating with HashiCorp Vault for dynamic secrets
- Using environment variables without exposure
- Managing configuration drift in automated environments
- Enforcing immutability through configuration
- Pattern: immutable infrastructure with full replacement
- Pattern: blue-green deployments using Terraform
- Pattern: canary rollouts with partial updates
Module 8: Security, Compliance & Governance - Principle of least privilege in provider configuration
- Hardening IAM roles and service accounts
- Using Terraform Sentinel policies for governance
- Writing policy-as-code rules for resource constraints
- Enforcing tag requirements across clouds
- Blocking insecure configurations pre-apply
- Integrating with Terraform Cloud for policy checks
- Setting up mandatory approvals for production changes
- Creating custom policy sets for your organisation
- Scanning configurations with tfsec for security issues
- Integrating checkov for compliance validation
- Using Terrascan for enterprise policy enforcement
- Generating compliance reports from scans
- Encrypting sensitive data with KMS, Cloud KMS, or GCP KMS
- Storing credentials outside of configuration files
- Managing TLS certificates using ACME or private CAs
- Network security: configuring NACLs, NSGs, and VPC firewalls
- Enforcing private subnets and no-public-IP policies
- Implementing logging and monitoring hooks
- Documenting compliance posture for auditors
Module 9: CI/CD & Automation Pipelines - Integrating Terraform into CI/CD workflows
- Using GitHub Actions for IaC automation
- Setting up GitLab CI pipelines for Terraform
- Configuring AWS CodePipeline for IaC deployments
- Automating terraform fmt and validate on push
- Running terraform plan in pull requests
- Displaying plan output for peer review
- Automated approval gates for production apply
- Using Atlantis for collaborative Terraform workflows
- Setting up lock management in team environments
- Handling merge conflicts in Terraform code
- Structuring repositories for multiple environments
- Monorepo vs. polyrepo strategies for IaC
- Environment promotion through pipeline stages
- Automated testing of infrastructure changes
- Unit testing with Terratest in Go
- Integration testing with mock providers
- Using destroy pipelines for ephemeral environments
- Scheduling automatic cleanup of test infra
- Monitoring pipeline success and failure rates
Module 10: Testing, Validation & Quality Assurance - Importance of testing in infrastructure code
- Types of testing: unit, integration, end-to-end
- Using terraform validate for syntax checks
- Static code analysis with tflint
- Configuring custom rules in tflint
- Automating linting in pre-commit hooks
- Introduction to Terratest for automated testing
- Writing Go-based tests for Terraform modules
- Testing resource creation and outputs
- Verifying security group rules and network paths
- Running tests in isolated AWS accounts
- Using Docker to isolate test environments
- Generating test fixtures and golden files
- Mocking cloud APIs for faster feedback
- Setting up test coverage reporting
- Fail-fast strategies in validation pipelines
- Testing rollback and destroy operations
- Validating module interoperability
- Automated documentation generation from tests
- Integrating QA gates into deployment workflows
Module 11: High Availability & Disaster Recovery - Designing infrastructure for fault tolerance
- Multi-AZ and multi-region deployment patterns
- Configuring auto-scaling groups with health checks
- Setting up load balancers across regions
- Database replication using RDS, Cloud SQL, Cosmos DB
- Backup window and retention policies
- Automated snapshot workflows
- Testing restore procedures from backups
- Failover mechanisms for databases and caches
- Using Route 53 for DNS failover
- Setting up health checks and routing policies
- Active-passive and active-active topologies
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) planning
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO) configuration
- Documenting disaster recovery runbooks
- Automating DR drills with Terraform
- Isolating DR environments from production
- Testing infrastructure rebuild from scratch
- Using immutable images for faster recovery
- Verifying data consistency after failover
Module 12: Cost Optimisation & Resource Management - Monitoring cloud spend through IaC
- Using cost estimation tools like Infracost
- Integrating Infracost into CI/CD pipelines
- Displaying cost impact in pull requests
- Identifying overprovisioned resources
- Right-sizing EC2 instances, VMs, and clusters
- Using spot instances and preemptible VMs safely
- Automating shutdown of non-production resources
- Scheduling start-stop cycles with Lambda or Cloud Functions
- Tagging resources for cost allocation
- Enforcing naming conventions for finance teams
- Generating cost reports from tags
- Using Terraform to enforce budget alerts
- Setting up billing alarms with cloud-native tools
- Deleting orphaned or unused resources
- Identifying dangling volumes, IPs, and DNS records
- Automating cleanup with nightly jobs
- Using lifecycle rules for S3, blobs, and disks
- Designing infrastructure for elasticity
- Optimising egress and data transfer costs
Module 13: Real-World Project: Multi-Cloud Web Application - Defining project requirements and success criteria
- Architecting a scalable three-tier application
- Creating VPCs, subnets, and route tables
- Configuring internet and NAT gateways
- Setting up security groups for web, app, and DB tiers
- Deploying EC2 instances with auto-scaling
- Configuring Application Load Balancer
- Provisioning RDS database with read replicas
- Enabling automated backups and maintenance
- Integrating with Elasticsearch for logging
- Setting up S3 buckets for static assets
- Configuring CloudFront CDN distributions
- Automating DNS with Route 53
- Setting up TLS with ACM certificates
- Implementing WAF rules for security
- Adding monitoring with CloudWatch and alerts
- Creating dashboards for infrastructure health
- Writing custom modules for each layer
- Testing the full stack deployment
- Destroying and redeploying for validation
Module 14: Certification & Next Steps - Preparing for the final assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and common pitfalls
- Taking the proctored exam simulation
- Submitting your capstone project for evaluation
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification on LinkedIn
- Adding credentials to your resume and portfolio
- Joining the alumni network of IaC professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and opportunities
- Staying updated with monthly technical briefings
- Participating in community challenges and sprints
- Exploring advanced topics: GitOps, Flux, ArgoCD
- Transitioning from Terraform to full platform engineering
- Building internal developer platforms (IDPs)
- Contributing to open-source IaC projects
- Mentoring junior engineers in your organisation
- Leading infrastructure modernisation initiatives
- Architecting zero-touch deployment systems
- Becoming the internal champion of automation
- Using dynamic blocks for flexible resource configuration
- Creating conditional resources with count and for_each
- Managing large collections with for expressions
- Nesting modules within conditional logic
- Generating configurations from templates
- Using templatefile and template_dir functions
- Injecting dynamic content into cloud-init scripts
- Managing user data for EC2, VMs, and containers
- Building lookup tables with maps and objects
- Using try() function to handle null or missing values
- Handling errors gracefully in expressions
- Working with sensitive outputs and suppression
- Best practices for secret management with external tools
- Integrating with HashiCorp Vault for dynamic secrets
- Using environment variables without exposure
- Managing configuration drift in automated environments
- Enforcing immutability through configuration
- Pattern: immutable infrastructure with full replacement
- Pattern: blue-green deployments using Terraform
- Pattern: canary rollouts with partial updates
Module 8: Security, Compliance & Governance - Principle of least privilege in provider configuration
- Hardening IAM roles and service accounts
- Using Terraform Sentinel policies for governance
- Writing policy-as-code rules for resource constraints
- Enforcing tag requirements across clouds
- Blocking insecure configurations pre-apply
- Integrating with Terraform Cloud for policy checks
- Setting up mandatory approvals for production changes
- Creating custom policy sets for your organisation
- Scanning configurations with tfsec for security issues
- Integrating checkov for compliance validation
- Using Terrascan for enterprise policy enforcement
- Generating compliance reports from scans
- Encrypting sensitive data with KMS, Cloud KMS, or GCP KMS
- Storing credentials outside of configuration files
- Managing TLS certificates using ACME or private CAs
- Network security: configuring NACLs, NSGs, and VPC firewalls
- Enforcing private subnets and no-public-IP policies
- Implementing logging and monitoring hooks
- Documenting compliance posture for auditors
Module 9: CI/CD & Automation Pipelines - Integrating Terraform into CI/CD workflows
- Using GitHub Actions for IaC automation
- Setting up GitLab CI pipelines for Terraform
- Configuring AWS CodePipeline for IaC deployments
- Automating terraform fmt and validate on push
- Running terraform plan in pull requests
- Displaying plan output for peer review
- Automated approval gates for production apply
- Using Atlantis for collaborative Terraform workflows
- Setting up lock management in team environments
- Handling merge conflicts in Terraform code
- Structuring repositories for multiple environments
- Monorepo vs. polyrepo strategies for IaC
- Environment promotion through pipeline stages
- Automated testing of infrastructure changes
- Unit testing with Terratest in Go
- Integration testing with mock providers
- Using destroy pipelines for ephemeral environments
- Scheduling automatic cleanup of test infra
- Monitoring pipeline success and failure rates
Module 10: Testing, Validation & Quality Assurance - Importance of testing in infrastructure code
- Types of testing: unit, integration, end-to-end
- Using terraform validate for syntax checks
- Static code analysis with tflint
- Configuring custom rules in tflint
- Automating linting in pre-commit hooks
- Introduction to Terratest for automated testing
- Writing Go-based tests for Terraform modules
- Testing resource creation and outputs
- Verifying security group rules and network paths
- Running tests in isolated AWS accounts
- Using Docker to isolate test environments
- Generating test fixtures and golden files
- Mocking cloud APIs for faster feedback
- Setting up test coverage reporting
- Fail-fast strategies in validation pipelines
- Testing rollback and destroy operations
- Validating module interoperability
- Automated documentation generation from tests
- Integrating QA gates into deployment workflows
Module 11: High Availability & Disaster Recovery - Designing infrastructure for fault tolerance
- Multi-AZ and multi-region deployment patterns
- Configuring auto-scaling groups with health checks
- Setting up load balancers across regions
- Database replication using RDS, Cloud SQL, Cosmos DB
- Backup window and retention policies
- Automated snapshot workflows
- Testing restore procedures from backups
- Failover mechanisms for databases and caches
- Using Route 53 for DNS failover
- Setting up health checks and routing policies
- Active-passive and active-active topologies
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) planning
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO) configuration
- Documenting disaster recovery runbooks
- Automating DR drills with Terraform
- Isolating DR environments from production
- Testing infrastructure rebuild from scratch
- Using immutable images for faster recovery
- Verifying data consistency after failover
Module 12: Cost Optimisation & Resource Management - Monitoring cloud spend through IaC
- Using cost estimation tools like Infracost
- Integrating Infracost into CI/CD pipelines
- Displaying cost impact in pull requests
- Identifying overprovisioned resources
- Right-sizing EC2 instances, VMs, and clusters
- Using spot instances and preemptible VMs safely
- Automating shutdown of non-production resources
- Scheduling start-stop cycles with Lambda or Cloud Functions
- Tagging resources for cost allocation
- Enforcing naming conventions for finance teams
- Generating cost reports from tags
- Using Terraform to enforce budget alerts
- Setting up billing alarms with cloud-native tools
- Deleting orphaned or unused resources
- Identifying dangling volumes, IPs, and DNS records
- Automating cleanup with nightly jobs
- Using lifecycle rules for S3, blobs, and disks
- Designing infrastructure for elasticity
- Optimising egress and data transfer costs
Module 13: Real-World Project: Multi-Cloud Web Application - Defining project requirements and success criteria
- Architecting a scalable three-tier application
- Creating VPCs, subnets, and route tables
- Configuring internet and NAT gateways
- Setting up security groups for web, app, and DB tiers
- Deploying EC2 instances with auto-scaling
- Configuring Application Load Balancer
- Provisioning RDS database with read replicas
- Enabling automated backups and maintenance
- Integrating with Elasticsearch for logging
- Setting up S3 buckets for static assets
- Configuring CloudFront CDN distributions
- Automating DNS with Route 53
- Setting up TLS with ACM certificates
- Implementing WAF rules for security
- Adding monitoring with CloudWatch and alerts
- Creating dashboards for infrastructure health
- Writing custom modules for each layer
- Testing the full stack deployment
- Destroying and redeploying for validation
Module 14: Certification & Next Steps - Preparing for the final assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and common pitfalls
- Taking the proctored exam simulation
- Submitting your capstone project for evaluation
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification on LinkedIn
- Adding credentials to your resume and portfolio
- Joining the alumni network of IaC professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and opportunities
- Staying updated with monthly technical briefings
- Participating in community challenges and sprints
- Exploring advanced topics: GitOps, Flux, ArgoCD
- Transitioning from Terraform to full platform engineering
- Building internal developer platforms (IDPs)
- Contributing to open-source IaC projects
- Mentoring junior engineers in your organisation
- Leading infrastructure modernisation initiatives
- Architecting zero-touch deployment systems
- Becoming the internal champion of automation
- Integrating Terraform into CI/CD workflows
- Using GitHub Actions for IaC automation
- Setting up GitLab CI pipelines for Terraform
- Configuring AWS CodePipeline for IaC deployments
- Automating terraform fmt and validate on push
- Running terraform plan in pull requests
- Displaying plan output for peer review
- Automated approval gates for production apply
- Using Atlantis for collaborative Terraform workflows
- Setting up lock management in team environments
- Handling merge conflicts in Terraform code
- Structuring repositories for multiple environments
- Monorepo vs. polyrepo strategies for IaC
- Environment promotion through pipeline stages
- Automated testing of infrastructure changes
- Unit testing with Terratest in Go
- Integration testing with mock providers
- Using destroy pipelines for ephemeral environments
- Scheduling automatic cleanup of test infra
- Monitoring pipeline success and failure rates
Module 10: Testing, Validation & Quality Assurance - Importance of testing in infrastructure code
- Types of testing: unit, integration, end-to-end
- Using terraform validate for syntax checks
- Static code analysis with tflint
- Configuring custom rules in tflint
- Automating linting in pre-commit hooks
- Introduction to Terratest for automated testing
- Writing Go-based tests for Terraform modules
- Testing resource creation and outputs
- Verifying security group rules and network paths
- Running tests in isolated AWS accounts
- Using Docker to isolate test environments
- Generating test fixtures and golden files
- Mocking cloud APIs for faster feedback
- Setting up test coverage reporting
- Fail-fast strategies in validation pipelines
- Testing rollback and destroy operations
- Validating module interoperability
- Automated documentation generation from tests
- Integrating QA gates into deployment workflows
Module 11: High Availability & Disaster Recovery - Designing infrastructure for fault tolerance
- Multi-AZ and multi-region deployment patterns
- Configuring auto-scaling groups with health checks
- Setting up load balancers across regions
- Database replication using RDS, Cloud SQL, Cosmos DB
- Backup window and retention policies
- Automated snapshot workflows
- Testing restore procedures from backups
- Failover mechanisms for databases and caches
- Using Route 53 for DNS failover
- Setting up health checks and routing policies
- Active-passive and active-active topologies
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) planning
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO) configuration
- Documenting disaster recovery runbooks
- Automating DR drills with Terraform
- Isolating DR environments from production
- Testing infrastructure rebuild from scratch
- Using immutable images for faster recovery
- Verifying data consistency after failover
Module 12: Cost Optimisation & Resource Management - Monitoring cloud spend through IaC
- Using cost estimation tools like Infracost
- Integrating Infracost into CI/CD pipelines
- Displaying cost impact in pull requests
- Identifying overprovisioned resources
- Right-sizing EC2 instances, VMs, and clusters
- Using spot instances and preemptible VMs safely
- Automating shutdown of non-production resources
- Scheduling start-stop cycles with Lambda or Cloud Functions
- Tagging resources for cost allocation
- Enforcing naming conventions for finance teams
- Generating cost reports from tags
- Using Terraform to enforce budget alerts
- Setting up billing alarms with cloud-native tools
- Deleting orphaned or unused resources
- Identifying dangling volumes, IPs, and DNS records
- Automating cleanup with nightly jobs
- Using lifecycle rules for S3, blobs, and disks
- Designing infrastructure for elasticity
- Optimising egress and data transfer costs
Module 13: Real-World Project: Multi-Cloud Web Application - Defining project requirements and success criteria
- Architecting a scalable three-tier application
- Creating VPCs, subnets, and route tables
- Configuring internet and NAT gateways
- Setting up security groups for web, app, and DB tiers
- Deploying EC2 instances with auto-scaling
- Configuring Application Load Balancer
- Provisioning RDS database with read replicas
- Enabling automated backups and maintenance
- Integrating with Elasticsearch for logging
- Setting up S3 buckets for static assets
- Configuring CloudFront CDN distributions
- Automating DNS with Route 53
- Setting up TLS with ACM certificates
- Implementing WAF rules for security
- Adding monitoring with CloudWatch and alerts
- Creating dashboards for infrastructure health
- Writing custom modules for each layer
- Testing the full stack deployment
- Destroying and redeploying for validation
Module 14: Certification & Next Steps - Preparing for the final assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and common pitfalls
- Taking the proctored exam simulation
- Submitting your capstone project for evaluation
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification on LinkedIn
- Adding credentials to your resume and portfolio
- Joining the alumni network of IaC professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and opportunities
- Staying updated with monthly technical briefings
- Participating in community challenges and sprints
- Exploring advanced topics: GitOps, Flux, ArgoCD
- Transitioning from Terraform to full platform engineering
- Building internal developer platforms (IDPs)
- Contributing to open-source IaC projects
- Mentoring junior engineers in your organisation
- Leading infrastructure modernisation initiatives
- Architecting zero-touch deployment systems
- Becoming the internal champion of automation
- Designing infrastructure for fault tolerance
- Multi-AZ and multi-region deployment patterns
- Configuring auto-scaling groups with health checks
- Setting up load balancers across regions
- Database replication using RDS, Cloud SQL, Cosmos DB
- Backup window and retention policies
- Automated snapshot workflows
- Testing restore procedures from backups
- Failover mechanisms for databases and caches
- Using Route 53 for DNS failover
- Setting up health checks and routing policies
- Active-passive and active-active topologies
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) planning
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO) configuration
- Documenting disaster recovery runbooks
- Automating DR drills with Terraform
- Isolating DR environments from production
- Testing infrastructure rebuild from scratch
- Using immutable images for faster recovery
- Verifying data consistency after failover
Module 12: Cost Optimisation & Resource Management - Monitoring cloud spend through IaC
- Using cost estimation tools like Infracost
- Integrating Infracost into CI/CD pipelines
- Displaying cost impact in pull requests
- Identifying overprovisioned resources
- Right-sizing EC2 instances, VMs, and clusters
- Using spot instances and preemptible VMs safely
- Automating shutdown of non-production resources
- Scheduling start-stop cycles with Lambda or Cloud Functions
- Tagging resources for cost allocation
- Enforcing naming conventions for finance teams
- Generating cost reports from tags
- Using Terraform to enforce budget alerts
- Setting up billing alarms with cloud-native tools
- Deleting orphaned or unused resources
- Identifying dangling volumes, IPs, and DNS records
- Automating cleanup with nightly jobs
- Using lifecycle rules for S3, blobs, and disks
- Designing infrastructure for elasticity
- Optimising egress and data transfer costs
Module 13: Real-World Project: Multi-Cloud Web Application - Defining project requirements and success criteria
- Architecting a scalable three-tier application
- Creating VPCs, subnets, and route tables
- Configuring internet and NAT gateways
- Setting up security groups for web, app, and DB tiers
- Deploying EC2 instances with auto-scaling
- Configuring Application Load Balancer
- Provisioning RDS database with read replicas
- Enabling automated backups and maintenance
- Integrating with Elasticsearch for logging
- Setting up S3 buckets for static assets
- Configuring CloudFront CDN distributions
- Automating DNS with Route 53
- Setting up TLS with ACM certificates
- Implementing WAF rules for security
- Adding monitoring with CloudWatch and alerts
- Creating dashboards for infrastructure health
- Writing custom modules for each layer
- Testing the full stack deployment
- Destroying and redeploying for validation
Module 14: Certification & Next Steps - Preparing for the final assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and common pitfalls
- Taking the proctored exam simulation
- Submitting your capstone project for evaluation
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Earning your Certificate of Completion
- How to showcase your certification on LinkedIn
- Adding credentials to your resume and portfolio
- Joining the alumni network of IaC professionals
- Accessing exclusive job boards and opportunities
- Staying updated with monthly technical briefings
- Participating in community challenges and sprints
- Exploring advanced topics: GitOps, Flux, ArgoCD
- Transitioning from Terraform to full platform engineering
- Building internal developer platforms (IDPs)
- Contributing to open-source IaC projects
- Mentoring junior engineers in your organisation
- Leading infrastructure modernisation initiatives
- Architecting zero-touch deployment systems
- Becoming the internal champion of automation
- Defining project requirements and success criteria
- Architecting a scalable three-tier application
- Creating VPCs, subnets, and route tables
- Configuring internet and NAT gateways
- Setting up security groups for web, app, and DB tiers
- Deploying EC2 instances with auto-scaling
- Configuring Application Load Balancer
- Provisioning RDS database with read replicas
- Enabling automated backups and maintenance
- Integrating with Elasticsearch for logging
- Setting up S3 buckets for static assets
- Configuring CloudFront CDN distributions
- Automating DNS with Route 53
- Setting up TLS with ACM certificates
- Implementing WAF rules for security
- Adding monitoring with CloudWatch and alerts
- Creating dashboards for infrastructure health
- Writing custom modules for each layer
- Testing the full stack deployment
- Destroying and redeploying for validation