Terraform for Azure

Overview: Terraform for Azure

Location: On-Site or Online
Pricing: $1,250 per seat (6-seat minimum)
Length: 4 Days

Course Summary

Terraform for Azure is a practical, hands-on course designed for engineers and automation practitioners who want to build, manage, and scale cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure using Terraform.

Students learn how to design, read, and maintain Terraform configurations to provision and manage Azure resources in a consistent, repeatable way. Core concepts such as providers, resources, variables, state, modules, and best practices are reinforced through frequent labs and real-world scenarios.

By the end of the course, students are comfortable using Terraform to create, update, and destroy Azure infrastructure safely, reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and support production-ready cloud environments.

Course Outline

Day 1 – Terraform and Azure Fundamentals

• 💬 Lecture: Infrastructure as Code concepts and Terraform use cases

• 💬 Lecture: Terraform architecture and workflow (init, plan, apply)

• 💬 Lecture: Azure fundamentals for Terraform users

• 💬 Lecture: HCL basics and Terraform configuration structure

• ⚙️ Lab: Installing Terraform and validating the environment

• ⚙️ Lab: Authenticating Terraform to Azure

• ⚙️ Lab: Initializing a Terraform working directory

• ⚙️ Lab: Defining and deploying a first Azure resource

• ⚙️ Lab: Running terraform plan and interpreting output

• ⚙️ Lab: Applying and destroying infrastructure safely

Day 2 – Variables, State, and Core Terraform Constructs

• 💬 Lecture: Providers, resources, and data sources

• 💬 Lecture: Input variables, output values, and locals

• ⚙️ Lab: Defining and using input variables

• ⚙️ Lab: Using outputs to expose resource information

• ⚙️ Lab: Leveraging data sources for existing Azure resources

• 💬 Lecture: Terraform state and state management

• ⚙️ Lab: Inspecting and understanding Terraform state

• ⚙️ Lab: Managing state changes safely

• 💬 Lecture: Remote state and collaboration

• ⚙️ Lab: Configuring remote state with Azure Storage and state locking

Day 3 – Modules, Logic, and Environment Management

• 💬 Lecture: Terraform modules and reuse patterns

• ⚙️ Lab: Creating a reusable Terraform module

• ⚙️ Lab: Refactoring configurations to use modules

• 💬 Lecture: Conditional logic and expressions

• ⚙️ Lab: Using count and for_each

• ⚙️ Lab: Applying conditional logic to Azure resources

• 💬 Lecture: Managing multiple environments (dev, test, prod)

• ⚙️ Lab: Environment-specific variable files

• ⚙️ Lab: Structuring Terraform projects for multiple environments

• 💬 Lecture: Error handling and troubleshooting Terraform runs

• ⚙️ Lab: Debugging failed Terraform plans and applies

Day 4 – Best Practices and Real-World Azure Automation

• 💬 Lecture: Designing safe and scalable Terraform configurations

• 💬 Lecture: Managing secrets and sensitive data

• ⚙️ Lab: Marking sensitive variables and outputs

• ⚙️ Lab: Integrating Terraform with Azure RBAC and identity best practices

• 💬 Lecture: Testing and validation concepts for Terraform

• ⚙️ Lab: Using terraform validate and terraform fmt

• ⚙️ Lab: Introducing policy-as-code concepts

• 💬 Lecture: Integrating Terraform into CI/CD pipelines

• ⚙️ Lab: Running Terraform non-interactively in pipelines

• ⚙️ Lab: Using plans and approvals in automated workflows

• 💬 Lecture: Real-world Terraform patterns on Azure

• ⚙️ Lab: Building a complete Azure infrastructure workflow

• ⚙️ Lab: Combining networking, compute, and storage resources

• ⚙️ Lab: Validating deployed infrastructure and documenting changes

Outcomes

Students who complete Terraform for Azure will be able to:

• Provision and manage Azure infrastructure using Terraform

• Write clean, reusable Terraform configurations

• Manage state safely in collaborative environments

• Use modules and variables to scale infrastructure

• Troubleshoot and debug Terraform workflows

• Apply Terraform best practices in real Azure environments