HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Professional Certification Training

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The HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Professional certification is designed for experienced practitioners seeking to validate their advanced skills in using Terraform for complex infrastructure deployments. This certification demonstrates proficiency in managing and scaling infrastructure with Terraform, including advanced topics like module design, testing, and collaboration. It equips professionals with the expertise to architect robust infrastructure solutions, automate provisioning across cloud environments, and optimize workflows for scalability and reliability. Achieving this certification establishes credibility as a Terraform expert capable of designing and implementing sophisticated infrastructure-as-code solutions that meet organizational needs efficiently and effectively.

Course Content

Understand Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts

Explain what IaC is
Describe advantages of IaC patterns
How Terraform Works?

Understand Terraform’s purpose (vs other IaC)

Understand Terraform basics

Use the Terraform CLI (outside of core workflow)

Interact with Terraform modules

Navigate Terraform Workflow

Implement and maintain state

Read, generate, and modify configuration

Use Terraform built-in functions to write configuration

Understand Terraform Cloud and Enterprise capabilities

DevOps Perspective

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Course Content

Understand Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts

Explain what IaC is

Describe advantages of IaC patterns

How Terraform Works?

Understand Terraform’s purpose (vs other IaC)

Explain multi-cloud and provider-agnostic benefits

Explain the benefits of state

Understand Terraform basics

Handle Terraform and provider installation and versioning

Describe plug-in based architecture

Demonstrate using multiple providers

Describe how Terraform finds and fetches providers

Describe how Terraform finds and fetches providers

Explain when to use and not use provisioners and when to use local-exec or remote-exec

Use the Terraform CLI (outside of core workflow)

Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform fmt to format code

Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform taint to taint Terraform resources

Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform import to import existing infrastructure into your Terraform state

Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform workspace to create workspaces

Given a scenario: choose when to use terraform state to view Terraform state

Given a scenario: choose when to enable verbose logging and what the outcome/value is

Interact with Terraform modules

Contrast module source options

Interact with module inputs and outputs

Describe variable scope within modules/child modules

Discover modules from the public Terraform Module Registry

Defining module version

Navigate Terraform Workflow

Describe Terraform workflow ( Write -> Plan -> Create )

Initialize a Terraform working directory (terraform init)

Validate a Terraform configuration (terraform validate)

Generate and review an execution plan for Terraform (terraform plan)

Execute changes to infrastructure with Terraform (terraform apply)

Destroy Terraform managed infrastructure (terraform destroy)

Implement and maintain state

Describe default local backend

Outline state locking

Handle backend authentication methods

Describe remote state storage mechanisms and supported standard backends

Describe effect of Terraform refresh on state

Describe backend block in configuration and best practices for partial configurations

Understand secret management in state files

Read, generate, and modify configuration

Demonstrate use of variables and outputs

Describe secure secret injection best practice

Understand the use of collection and structural types

Create and differentiate resource and data configuration

Use resource addressing and resource parameters to connect resources together

Use Terraform built-in functions to write configuration

Configure resource using a dynamic block

Describe built-in dependency management (order of execution based)

Understand Terraform Cloud and Enterprise capabilities

Describe the benefits of Sentinel, registry, and workspaces

Differentiate OSS and Terraform Cloud workspaces

Summarize features of Terraform Cloud

DevOps Perspective

Terraform to run Kubernetes Instructions

Terraform to run Docker instructions

Terraform to run Ansible Instructions

Terraform to run AWS Features

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