Terraform 101 - Building on AWS

This is a repo for the source code for a talk I am doing for DevOps University on Terraform! :terraform:

• Cloud Instutute can be found here:
• Terraform Official Docs:
• Slides: eventually here

Talk Outline:

• The Beginning
  • What Terraform is.
  • What to use it for
• Begin and Build
  • Start building within AWS
  • Create a VPC
  • Create other resources
• Terraforms True Powers
  • Providers
  • HCL Language
  • Remote capabilities
• The Beyond
  • The Future features that are there, but not 100% ironed out

Using this repo

This repository contains a Vagrantfile which enables developers to create Virtual machines with the necessary specifications provided within the Vagrantfile. Running with Vargan trequires two main programs:

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant

Users using the Vagrantifle will benefit from an isolated environment with all the necessary installations and versions.

This Repo Layout

01_TheLab

The lab is a folder that users can go to in order to get most comfortable with Terraform. Within the folder, there is a Solved and an Unsolved folder. Also within the folder is a README.md that will have a series of questons on it so that users can answerr the challenges and then check the possible approach within the Solved folder.

buildspec

AWS Codebuild looks for a buildspec/buildspec.yml file. For those users that might want to see a solution in which they could use CodeBuild to handle all of their Terrafrom deployments.

Docs

General files on documentation and other good reads regarding the product.

Providers

The talk I do is specifically within the AWS environment, but I would never want to steer users in a direction in which they thought that Terraform was just for AWS. This folder shows users other provider possibilites I have used on my own and really liked!