HashiCorp Terraform Certified Associate Preparation Guide

Gain insights into Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, sharpen your skills, and prepare for the HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification in a cloud-agnostic way.

Intermediate

62 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, sharpen your skills, and prepare for the HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification in a cloud-agnostic way.

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This course includes

15 Playgrounds

7 Quizzes

This course includes

15 Playgrounds

7 Quizzes

Course Overview

This course is designed to help learners obtain the Terraform Associate certification from HashiCorp. You’ve likely picked up this course because you dabbled in Terraform as a hobbyist or in a development environment, and you’re excited about the possibilities of deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC). It will enable you to sharpen your skills and prove your knowledge with a certification from HashiCorp. Terraform is an amazing tool to deploy Infrastructure as Code in a cloud-agnostic way. We’re excited ...Show More

What You'll Learn

Infrastructure as Code

Hybrid Cloud Deployment

Cloud Agnostic Infrastructure Management

What You'll Learn

Infrastructure as Code

Course Content

Introduction to the Course

Get familiar with Terraform to enhance IaC skills for certification with practical guidance.

Getting Started

Course Overview

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code

Look at how Infrastructure as Code (IaC) revolutionizes infrastructure automation, using Terraform's HCL for multi-cloud deployments.

What is Infrastructure as Code?Introduction to Terraform HCL Advantages of IaC Patterns

Multi-cloud and Provider-agnostic Benefits of State

Quiz on Introduction to IaC

Basics of Terraform

Examine Terraform’s plugin architecture, provider management, and use of provisioners for resource operations.

Plugin-based Architecture How Terraform Finds and Fetches Providers Using Provisioners, local-exec, or remote-exec Quiz on Basics of Terraform

Outside the Workflow: Using the Terraform CLI

Grasp the fundamentals of using the Terraform CLI, commands, workspaces, and state management.

Using the Help System Formatting the Code The terraform taint command Importing an Existing Infrastructure Creating Workspaces Using Workspaces Listing Resources within Terraform State Moving Items in Terraform State Downloading and Uploading the State File Removing Items from Terraform State Viewing Resource Attributes in Terraform State Verbose Logging and its Outcome Quiz on Terraform CLI

Terraform Modules

Delve into Terraform modules, including source options, inputs, outputs, variable scope, public modules, and versioning.

Module Source Options Module Inputs Module Outputs Variable Scope within Modules and Child Modules Terraform Public Modules Module Version Quiz on Terraform Modules

Navigate Terraform Workflow

7 Lessons

Follow the process of writing, planning, applying, and managing Terraform infrastructure efficiently.

Implement and Maintain State

8 Lessons

Master the steps to securely manage and store Terraform state data for collaboration.

Read, Generate, and Modify Configuration

11 Lessons

Learn infrastructure configuration with variables, outputs, secrets, collections, resources, and dynamic blocks.

Understand Terraform Enterprise Capabilities

3 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of Terraform Enterprise, its workspaces, and core features like Sentinel.

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Conclusion

1 Lesson

Examine foundational concepts and practical applications of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.

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