Terraform in 2 Weeks

Want to learn Terraform within 15 days. Here's a 2-week Terraform learning plan covering everything from basics to advanced topics.

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Avinash Tietler
April 02, 2025

Terraform in 2 Weeks

Week 1: Terraform Fundamentals

  • What is Terraform?

  • Benefits of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • Terraform vs Other IaC Tools (CloudFormation, Ansible, Pulumi)

  • Installing Terraform

  • Terraform CLI and Workflow (init, plan, apply, destroy)

  • Terraform Configuration Files (.tf files)

  • Providers, Resources, and Data Sources

  • Hands-on: Creating a Simple EC2 Instance on AWS

  • Defining Variables (variable.tf)

  • Using Default and Environment Variables

  • Sensitive Variables (sensitive = true)

  • Outputs (output.tf)

  • What is Terraform State?

  • Local vs Remote State Storage

  • Terraform State Locking

  • What are Modules?

  • Creating and Using Modules

  • Terraform Registry and Reusing Public Modules

  • Hands-on: Building a VPC Module

  • Provisioners (local-exec, remote-exec)

  • Meta-Arguments (count, for_each, depends_on)

  • Hands-on: Automating Software Installation on EC2 with Remote-Exec

  • Hands-on: Deploying a Basic 3-Tier Architecture (VPC, Subnet, EC2, Security Groups)

Week 2: Advanced Terraform and Best Practices

  • What is Terraform Cloud?

  • Workspaces for Multi-Environment Deployments

  • Remote Execution in Terraform Cloud

  • Integrating Terraform with GitHub Actions/GitLab CI

  • Managing Terraform Workflows in a CI/CD Pipeline

  • Hands-on: Automating Terraform Deployment using GitHub Actions

  • Managing Secrets with AWS Secrets Manager/Vault

  • Using Environment Variables for Sensitive Data

  • Securely Handling State Files

  • Common Terraform Errors and How to Fix Them

  • Debugging with TF_LOG and terraform fmt

  • Hands-on: Fixing Broken Terraform Configurations

  • Writing Clean and Maintainable Terraform Code

  • Organizing Terraform Projects

  • Implementing DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) Principles

  • Hands-on: Refactoring an Existing Terraform Project

  • Terraform vs Helm for Kubernetes Management

  • Deploying Kubernetes Clusters with Terraform (EKS/GKE/AKS)

  • Hands-on: Deploying an EKS Cluster with Terraform

  • Hands-on: Build a Fully Automated Infrastructure (VPC, Subnets, EC2, RDS, Load Balancer)

  • Review and Next Steps (Terraform Enterprise, Sentinel, Custom Providers)

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