01-intro-to-terraform

Workshop Introduction

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Deployment of application infrastructure (and apps) using code based assets.

Some potential options for IaC:

• Scripts, SDKs, and managed code
• Provider-specific tooling
• Configuration Management / Provisioning tooling

Benefits:

• Agility
• Control
• Documentation
• Idempotency
• Version control
• Validation
• Reuse
• Continuous

Terraform

Open Sourced, cross-platform, and somewhat mature option for IaC.

• Clean, simple language (Hashicorp Configuration Language, HCL2)
• Extensible through Terraform providers (multi-cloud, cross prem)
• Runtime and providers built-in Go
• Terraform Configuration is the deployable piece
• Multiple tools for testing and continuous integration / delivery

Next Module

In the next module, you will create a simple resource using Terraform.

Module 2: Terraform Hello World