Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud

Course Certification

This course helps you prepare to take the:
Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Exam;

Course Outline

Module 01 – Introduction to Terraform for Google Cloud

• Introduction to IaC
• What is infrastructure as code (IaC)?
• Problems IaC can solve
• Benefits of IaC
• Provisioning versus configuration
• Imperative versus declarative approach
• Introduction to Terraform
• Terraform overview
• Terraform features
• IaC configuration workflow
• Terraform use cases
• Using Terraform
• How to use Terraform
• Running Terraform in production
• Installing Terraform
• Authentication for Google Cloud

Module 02 – Terms and Concepts

• The Author phase
• Terraform Directory structure
• Introduction to HCL syntax
• Resources
• Variables
• State
• Modules
• Terraform commands
• terraform init
• terraform plan
• terraform apply
• terraform fmt
• terraform destroy
• Terraform Validator tool
• Introduction
• Why use the Terraform Validator tool
• Validation workflow
• Terraform Validator use cases

Module 03 – Writing Infrastructure Code for Google Cloud

• Introduction to Resources
• Resources overview
• Syntax
• Example
• Refer a resource attribute
• Considerations to define a resource block
• Meta-arguments for resources
• Resource dependencies
• Implicit dependency
• Explicit dependency
• Introduction to Variables
• Overview
• Syntax to declare a variable
• Syntax to reference and assign a value to a variable
• Variables best practices
• Introduction to output values
• Output values overview
• Best practices
• Terraform Registry and CFT
• Introduction to Terraform Registry
• Introduction to CFT

Module 04 – Organizing and Reusing Configuration with Terraform Modules

• Introduction to modules:
• Why are modules needed
• What is a module?
• Example
• Reusing configurations by using modules
• Module sources
• Calling a module into the source configuration
• Using variables to parameterize your configuration
• Pass resource attributes using output variables
• Module use cases, benefits, and best practices

Module 05 – Introduction to Terraform State

• Introduction to Terraform state
• How information is stored in a Terraform state file
• Ways to save a state file
• Storing a state file in a Cloud Storage bucket
• Issues when storing the Terraform state locally
• Benefits of storing a state file in a Cloud Storage bucket
• Process of storing a Terraform state file remotely in a Cloud Storage bucket
• Terraform state best practices

Course Mode

Instructor-Led Remote Live Classroom Training;

Trainers

Trainers are GCP Official Instructors and certified in other IT technologies, with years of hands-on experience in the industry and in Training.

Lab Topology

For all types of delivery, the Trainee can access real Cisco equipment and systems in our laboratories or directly at the Cisco data centers remotely 24 hours a day. Each participant has access to implement the various configurations thus having a practical and immediate feedback of the theoretical concepts.
Here are some Labs topologies available: