Introduction to Terraform

This 3-day Terraform course provides a hands-on introduction to infrastructure as code, teaching students how to design, build, and manage cloud and on-prem infrastructure in a consistent and repeatable way. Participants learn Terraform fundamentals including providers, resources, variables, state management, and modules, while working through real-world scenarios that mirror modern DevOps and cloud environments. By the end of the course, students will be able to confidently provision, update, and maintain infrastructure using Terraform best practices that support scalability, collaboration, and automation.

Location: On-Site or On-Line

Course Outline

Day 1 – Terraform Fundamentals and Core Concepts

• Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Terraform use cases

• Terraform workflow: init, plan, apply, destroy

• Providers, resources, and data sources

• Variables, outputs, and locals

• Terraform state, backends, and locking concepts

• Writing clean, maintainable Terraform code

• Lab: Building and managing a basic Terraform project

Day 2 – Modules, State Management, and Environments

• Creating and using Terraform modules

• Module versioning and reuse strategies

• Managing multiple environments (dev, test, prod)

• Remote state and collaboration workflows

• Error handling, troubleshooting, and debugging

• Lab: Refactoring infrastructure into reusable modules

Day 3 – Cloud Providers, Best Practices, and Real-World Usage

• Provider-agnostic design patterns and portability

• Cloud provisioning with Terraform (optional – on request):

  • AWS – VPCs, compute, and core services (optional – on request)

  • Azure – Resource groups, networking, and compute (optional – on request)

  • Google Cloud (GCP) – Projects, networking, and services (optional – on request)

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) – Compartments and core resources (optional – on request)

• Security considerations and secrets management

• Terraform workflows in CI/CD pipelines

• Lab: End-to-end infrastructure deployment using selected cloud provider(s) (optional – on request)