Gain insights into Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, sharpen your skills, and prepare for the HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification in a cloud-agnostic way.

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This course is designed to help learners obtain the Terraform Associate certification from HashiCorp. 

You’ve likely picked up this course because you dabbled in Terraform as a hobbyist or in a
development environment, and you’re excited about the possibilities of deploying Infrastructure 
as Code (IaC). It will enable you to sharpen your skills and prove your knowledge with a certification from HashiCorp. Terraform is an amazing tool to deploy Infrastructure as Code in a cloud-agnostic way. We’re excited to share our accumulated knowledge with you through this course.

HashiCorp Terraform Certified Associate Preparation Guide

Some back-ends require authentication and authorization to access state data stored in the backend. For instance, Azure Storage requires access keys, and the MySQL back-end requires database credentials. The documentation for each back-end type will list out the exact format and type of authentication required.


Let's look at the Azure Storage backend as an example:


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terraform
terraform {
  backend "azurerm" {
    storage_account_name = "arthurdent42"
    container_name       = "tfstate"
    key                  = "terraform.tfstate"
    access_key           = "qwertyuiop12345678..."
  }
}



Azure Storage accounts have an access key that allows full access to the contents of a storage account. In the code snippet above, the access key value is stored directly in the configuration. Generally speaking, this isn’t a recommended practice.


Learn how Terraform handles the backend authentication methods.

Introduction to the Course

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code

Basics of Terraform

Outside the Workflow: Using the Terraform CLI

Terraform Modules

Navigate Terraform Workflow

Implement and Maintain State

Read, Generate, and Modify Configuration

Understand Terraform Enterprise Capabilities

Conclusion

Handle Back-end Authentication Methods

Back-end authentication