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WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Jun 12, 2020

Terraform for Developers

Devlin Duldulao

Say goodbye to slow, error-prone manual deployments. Terraform treats cloud infrastructure just like application code. Master core workflows to automate and scale your environments anywhere.

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#1 about 2 min

Understanding the fundamentals of infrastructure as code

How automation eliminates manual provisioning errors and increases deployment speed.

#2 about 3 min

Overview of Terraform and Terraform Cloud features

An overview of using Terraform for lifecycle management and remote team collaboration.

#3 about 4 min

Terraform configuration syntax and core CLI commands

Understanding basic resource blocks, variables, expressions, and common execution commands.

#4 about 9 min

Deploying Azure infrastructure resources with Terraform code

A live demonstration of provisioning an app service and SQL database in Azure.

#5 about 5 min

Provisioning and modifying Google Cloud compute resources

Applying configurations to safely create, update, and destroy compute instances in Google Cloud.

#6 about 5 min

Reviewing AWS infrastructure deployment configuration and planning

Examining basic compute and security group setup scripts for AWS environments.

#7 about 5 min

Managing Terraform state and automating CI/CD pipelines

Best practices for securing remote state files within automated release pipelines.

#8 about 5 min

Comparing Terraform to popular configuration management tools

How declarative infrastructure provisioning differs from mutable configuration approaches like Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.

#9 about 4 min

Structuring Terraform with Packer, Docker, and Kubernetes

Orchestrating hardware provisioning alongside containerized application deployments and baked virtual machine images.

#10 about 2 min

Contrasting Terraform with Pulumi and cloud-specific tools

Evaluating differences between Terraform, general-purpose language IaC tools, and proprietary cloud managers.

#11 about 2 min

Infrastructure as code summary and learning resources

A recap of automation benefits alongside recommended certifications and reading material for practitioners.

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Overview of infrastructure as code tools

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3:20 min

Choosing tools and environments for infrastructure as code

Hennie Francis · LIVE

1:46 min

Automating cloud provisioning with infrastructure as code

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1:57 min

Executing the core Terraform provisioning workflow

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