Terraform Tutorial

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This tutorial is designed to show some basics of terraform, which is infrastructure as code. You can follow along with the corresponding youtube videos. These are just a quick way with teaching you how to get started.

• YouTube Tutorial Playlist

Tutorials

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1. Getting Started

   We'll walk through the basic set-up of terraform and basics on terraform files and syntax. In this tutorial, we use Linode as our provider. You can sign up for an account here with free credits.

   • YouTube Tutorial Pt. 1
   • Install Terraform
   • Initializing A Directory
   • Provider Block
   • Adding Linode Users
   • Setting up an instance

2. Terraform State And Files

   This portion is to show you different ways to set up your terraform directories, find terraform state information, how to use variables, and to comment within files.

   • Terraform State and Files
   • Terraform State
   • Terraform File Structures And Variables

3. Terraform CLI, Functions, and Data

   We'll be going over various Terraform CLI Commands, built in functions, and how to use data modules.

   • Terraform CLI Commands
   • Terraform Functions
   • Terraform Data Blocks

4. Terraform Working With Multiple Resources

   We'll be creating multiple resources using counts and for_each in this module. We'll also create multiple resoucres that have dependecies upon each other.

   • Making Multiple Resources Using for_each and count
   • count
   • for_each
   • Multiple Resources