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Introduction

  • What distinguishes Terraform from Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Salt?
  • Why choose Terraform over Google Deployment Manager?

Terraform Features and Architecture Overview

  • Infrastructure as Code, execution plans, resource graphs, and change automation

Terraform Workflow

  • Write, Preview, Create, Reproduce, and Destroy

Getting Started

  • Preparing a GCP account for Terraform integration
  • Initializing Terraform and building a virtual machine (compute engine instance)

Building an Application

  • Initiating a project on GCP
  • Setting up a sample web application

Preparing an Execution Plan

  • Authoring new plans, saving, and managing .tf files

Handling Configuration Files

  • Syntax overview
  • Writing, version controlling, and updating configurations

Defining Resource Dependencies

  • Leveraging the Terraform Resource Graph
  • Distinguishing between infrastructure and application dependencies

Deploying Infrastructure

  • Previewing configuration changes
  • Executing planned changes

Managing State

  • Configuring Google Cloud Storage for data persistence
  • Setting up Remote State

Networking

  • Configuring firewalls
  • Managing subnets

Reproducing Infrastructure

  • Setting up environments for applications: dev, test/qa, stage, and prod

Packaging Configuration Files as Modules

  • Reducing code duplication with shareable modules
  • Using the Module Registry to create reusable templates

Integrating Terraform into Deployment Pipelines

  • Building, deploying, and testing applications
  • Importing existing external resources into Terraform

Terraform Performance Optimization

  • Infrastructure monitoring and performance metrics

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion

Requirements

  • Proficiency in using a command-line interface
  • A solid grasp of cloud infrastructure concepts

Target Audience

  • Cloud architects
  • System administrators
  • DevOps engineers
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