Terraform

Audience: Cloud Engineers and DevOps practitioners.

Purpose: Infrastructure as Code for provisioning and managing cloud resources.

Overview

Terraform is an open-source Infrastructure as Code tool that enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure.

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Course	Level
Terraform Foundations	101
Terraform Module Lab	102
Collaborative Infrastructure as Code	201
Terraform: Cloud Compliance and Management	300
Advanced Sentinel Governance	400

Resource	Link
Terraform Registry Badges	terraform.io/docs/registry/providers
Cisco ACI Automation	blogs.cisco.com/developer/terraform-with-aci-1

Module	Purpose
terraform-google-project-factory	GCP project creation
it-ae-tfmod-vra-linux-deployment	AggieCloud Linux VMs
it-ae-tfmod-vra-windows-deployment	AggieCloud Windows VMs

Configure provider authentication for each cloud platform:

Azure Authentication

Use Azure CLI or Service Principal authentication.

provider "azurerm" {
  features {}
}

AWS Authentication

Use AWS CLI profile or environment variables.

provider "aws" {
  region = "us-east-1"
}

GCP Authentication

Use Application Default Credentials or service account key.

provider "google" {
  project = "your-project-id"
  region  = "us-central1"
}

Store Terraform state remotely for team collaboration: