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Gain insights into Terraform’s infrastructure-as-code capabilities. Learn about setting up local files, managing remote resources, and mastering unique modules, data structures, and resource management techniques.

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main.sh

ch 2 p1 a-managing resources 

ch 2 p4-graph

ch 2 p2- implicit dependency

ch 2 p3- explicit dependency

ch 1 p1-a terraform resources

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ch 1 p1-b terraform resources

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ch 1 p3-a ltthw_plan

ch 1 p4-a ltthw_output

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ch 2 p1 b-managing resources 

ch 2 p5- importing resources

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ch 3 p4 ltthw_structure

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ch 3 p5 b datatypes

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ch 4 p1 ltthw_null_resources

ch 4 p2 ltthw_multiple

ch 4 p3 ltthw_backends

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Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform that allows users to manage and integrate various external resources as united infrastructure. This is achieved by using the proprietary HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) or JSON.

This course is a comprehensive introduction to Terraform. It helps users build confidence through foundational understanding of Terraform’s approach to resource management and the coding environment. You’ll start with an introduction to Terraform and learn how to set up local files. You’ll then take your learning to the cloud, managing remote resources by identifying unique resources and dependencies. Next, you’ll learn the modules and data structures unique to Terraform before practicing various techniques for infrastructure management, including triggers, resource creation, and backend code.

By the end of this course, you’ll have learned to think creatively and be ready to solve production and deployment problems through Terraform.

Beginner’s Guide to Terraform

# What will we learn?

In this lesson, we’ll use Terraform to create resources that are external to our localhost machine. We’ll go over how to create resources on a given provider. That might include a cloud-based provider (we’ll be using Amazon Web Services in our examples) or any other kind of resource accessible via an API that’s supported by Terraform.



In “Remote Terraform,” we’ll cover the following points:

- In the[ "Managing Remote Resources"](https://www.educative.io/courses/beginners-guide-to-terraform/manage-remote-resources) lesson, we’ll learn the following:

   - What are remote resources?
  - How do providers work?
   - What are refreshing resources?


 
- In the ["Implicit  Resource Dependencies"](https://www.educative.io/courses/beginners-guide-to-terraform/implicit-resource-dependencies) lesson, we’ll learn the following:


   - How does Terraform create implicit dependencies?





- In the ["Explicit  Resource Dependencies"](https://www.educative.io/courses/beginners-guide-to-terraform/explicit-resource-dependencies) lesson, we’ll cover the following:


   - How Terraform creates explicit dependencies.
   - How it manages targeted destruction of resources.



- In the ["Graphing Terraform Resources"](https://www.educative.io/courses/beginners-guide-to-terraform/graph-terraform-resources) lesson, we’ll cover the following:


  - How to create graphs in Terraform.
 - In the ["Importing Resources"](https://www.educative.io/courses/beginners-guide-to-terraform/import-resources) lesson, we’re going to do just that by using this sequence of steps:
   - Create some resources.
   - Extract the resource IDs.
   - Lose the Terraform state.
   -  Use the resource IDs to import using Terraform.
   


We’re going to create our first piece of cloud infrastructure using Terraform. We’ve chosen **Amazon Web Services (AWS)** since it is currently the most popular cloud computing platform. Later, we’ll learn about dependencies, graphing resources, and preexisting resources in Terraform.






Get introduced to remote Terraform in this lesson.

Introduction to Remote Terraform

Getting Started

Local Basics

Remote Terraform

Modules and Data Structures

Intermediate Terraform Techniques

Conclusion

Introduction to Remote Terraform

What will we learn?