This course will teach you everything you need to know in order to pass your Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associate exam. You will be able to go from a Terraform novice to understanding resources, modules, variables, state management, the Terraform workflow, Terraform Cloud, workspaces, and more!

Here is what we will cover:

1. Getting your environment setup - including installations, configurations, and some suggestions for which tools to use.

2. Account setup - account setup for Terraform and AWS.

3. Tools - An overview of VS Code and why I suggest using it for this course.

4. Terraform Workflow - write, plan apply

5. Terraform Basics - creating resources, creating modules, creating variables, resource addressing.

6. State management - terraform import, taint, untaint, and understanding the state file.

7. Terraform Cloud - Understanding the Terraform cloud offering, what it is, and why to use it.

8. Variables - what they are, how to use them, tfvars file, and more!

9. Other terraform commands - fmt, refresh, and validate.

10. Outputs - what they are and how to use them.

In this course there will be labs involving these AWS resources: (some familiarity with them would be beneficial)

• EC2

• EBS

• S3

This course includes some instruction, but is made up primarily of labs that we walk through together, then some assignments that will challenge and test your skills!

Many students have already passed their Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associate after taking this course, you could be the next!