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TFC Week 2 Onboarding Journey

Week 2 - Welcome to TFC

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Terraform

Packer

Consul

Vault

Boundary

Nomad

Waypoint

Vagrant

Main Menu

Learn about TFC in this 20 minute video

What is Terraform Cloud - intro and sign up

Create a workspace

Create infrastructure

Change infrastructure

Destroy resources and workspaces

Enforce a policy

Control costs with policies

What is Infrastructure as Code with Terraform?

Install Terraform

Build infrastructure

Destroy infrastructure

Define input variables

Query data with outputs

Store remote state

Week 2 - Wrap-up

Onboarding

Get off to a strong start with TFC in Week 2 of your Onboarding Journey.

Learn to provision infrastructure with HashiCorp Terraform

Get Started - Terraform Cloud

Sign up for Terraform Cloud, which provides free remote state storage, a stable run environment, version control system (VCS) driven plans and applies, a collaborative web GUI, and more. Create your first organization.

Create a CLI-driven Terraform Cloud workspace. Update configuration to enable integration with Terraform Cloud.

Set EC2 instance attributes using Terraform Cloud workspace variables. Create the instance by planning and applying a run in Terraform Cloud.

Use command line input variables to modify infrastructure managed by Terraform Cloud. Review workspace contents and interface.

Destroy the resources in a Terraform Cloud workspace, and delete the workspace via the web UI.

Create a version-controlled policy to check the Terraform version using Sentinel, a policy-as-code platform. Fork a demo repo, connect the policy to Terraform Cloud, and queue a plan to test the policy.

Write a soft-mandatory Sentinel policy against example infrastructure to limit its cost to less than one hundred dollars a month.

Get Started - AWS

Learn how infrastructure as code lets you safely build, change, and manage infrastructure. Try Terraform.

Install Terraform on Mac, Linux, or Windows by downloading the binary or using a package manager (Homebrew or Chocolatey). Then create a Docker container locally by following a quick-start tutorial to check that Terraform installed correctly.

Authenticate to AWS and create an EC2 instance under the AWS free tier. Write and validate Terraform configuration, initialize a configuration directory, and plan and apply a configuration to create infrastructure.

Modify EC2-instance configuration to use a different Ubuntu version. Plan and apply the changes to re-provision a new instance that reflects the new configuration. Learn how Terraform handles infrastructure change management.

Destroy the AWS EC2 instance you created in the previous tutorials. Evaluate the plan and confirm the destruction.

Declare your AWS EC2 instance name as a variable. Reference the variable in Terraform configuration. Define variables using command line flags and default values.

Declare output values to display an EC2 instance's ID and public IP address. Display all outputs and query specific outputs. Define what data stored in Terraform state is relevant to the operator or end user.

Configure Terraform to store state in Terraform Cloud. Add a remote state block directly to configuration or set an environment variable to load remote state configuration when Terraform initializes.

This week you learned about the Terraform configuration language, used Modules and  Workspaces to organize your configuration, and explored Runs and the Git Repo Structure.