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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Infrastructure-as-Code Sovereignty
- Examining the risks associated with cloud consoles and SaaS IaC, such as vendor lock-in and audit gaps.
- A detailed exploration of Terraform architecture, including core components, providers, state management, and the plan/apply workflow.
- A comparative analysis of Terraform against alternatives like Pulumi, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
Configuration Language and Providers
- Mastering HCL syntax to define resources, data sources, variables, and outputs.
- Configuring on-premise providers, including Proxmox, libvirt, vSphere, and PowerDNS.
- Exploring community providers and the fundamentals of custom provider development.
- Understanding resource dependencies and the underlying graph theory principles.
State Management
- Evaluating the security implications of local versus remote state storage.
- Setting up self-hosted backends using PostgreSQL, S3-compatible storage (MinIO), Gitea, and etcd.
- Implementing state locking, encryption at rest, and robust backup strategies.
- Managing state migration and detecting configuration drift.
Modules and Workspaces
- Structuring modules with inputs, outputs, and versioning best practices.
- Building private module registries utilizing Git tags.
- Ensuring isolation across dev, staging, and production environments using workspaces.
- Leveraging self-hosted alternatives to Terraform Cloud, such as Atlantis or Spacelift.
Provisioning and Lifecycle
- Integrating cloud-init and PXE for bare-metal provisioning processes.
- Utilizing provisioners, including local-exec, remote-exec, and file transfer capabilities.
- Leveraging null resources and triggers to create custom automation workflows.
- Managing resource destruction, planning, and tainting to facilitate safe rollbacks.
Security and Compliance
- Enforcing variable validation and appropriately marking sensitive data.
- Implementing policy-as-code for on-premise environments using Sentinel and OPA alternatives.
- Establishing robust audit logging and plan file review processes.
CI/CD Integration
- Automating plan and apply workflows within GitHub Actions or Woodpecker CI.
- Integrating
terraform fmt,validate, and linting tools into pre-commit hooks. - Setting up cost estimation and budget guardrails.
- Developing comprehensive rollback strategies and state recovery procedures.
Requirements
- An intermediate grasp of infrastructure-as-code concepts and cloud computing fundamentals.
- Practical proficiency with JSON, HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language), and version control systems.
- Familiarity with on-premise virtualization platforms, specifically Proxmox and VMware.
Audience
- Infrastructure engineers tasked with provisioning bare metal servers and private cloud resources.
- DevOps teams managing on-premise resources through declarative configuration methods.
- Organizations actively seeking to minimize reliance on cloud control planes for infrastructure state management.
Testimonials (1)
The trainer was very knowledgeable and easy to talk to, he helped with troubleshooting issues for some of the participants and answered all the questions. Course material was good and had a lot of examples.
