Terraform - From Zero to Certified Professional

2025 HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate and much more

Welcome to Course: Terraform - From Zero to Certified Professional

Course covering all features of Terraform required to pass HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate Exam certification exam.

Course is fully bases on building Infrastructure on AWS - Amazon Web Services, but
I have one lesson to show how to work with GCP - Google Cloud Platform and provision VM and simple Web Server.

We also will use AI to write code and find and fix issues in my code.

Course Lessons:

1. Welcome and Intro

2. What is Terraform and Why you need it

3. Installation on Windows

4. Installation on Linux

5. Installation on Mac

6. Upgrade Terraform Version

7. Installation of Visual Studio Code and Terraform Plugin

8. AWS Credentials Setup for Terraform

9. Create Resources on AWS

10. Update Resources on AWS

11. Destroy Resources on AWS

12. Installation and use of Cursor AI Code Editor and Terraform Plugin

13. Fixing Error for EC2-Classic no new Security Groups can be created without referencing a VPC

14. Bootstrap simple WebServer

15. Bootstrap simple WebServer with External Static file

16. Bootstrap simple WebServer with External Template file

17. Example Working with Google Cloud Platform, create simple VM and WebServer

18. Dynamic Blocks

19. Almost Zero downtime WebServer with Lifecycle and Elastic IP

20. Manage dependency  - depends_on

21. Show execution results - outputs

22. Generate, Store, Retrieve Secrets - SSM Parameter Store

23. Generate, Store, Retrieve Secrets - AWS Secrets Manager

24. More Secure state file with Ephemeral block

25. Use Data Sources to fetch information

26. Use Data Sources to fetch latest AMI id

27. Deploy Highly Available Web Site with Zero Downtime and Green/Blue Deployment

28. Variables

29. Variables with Auto Filling

30. Local Variables

31. Execute Local Commands - local-exec

32. Execute Remote Commands - remote-exec

33. When and how to use Terraform Actions Block

34. Lookup and Conditions

35. Terraform Loops - count

36. Terraform Loops - for_each

37. Terraform Loops - for in

38. Create Resources in Multiply AWS Regions

39. Create Resources in Multiply AWS Accounts and Regions

40. Terraform Remote State

41. Terraform Modules Part-1 - Convert your code into Module

42. Terraform Modules Part-2 - Use Modules

43. Terraform Modules Part-3 - Use Modules in loops, store and use Modules in GitHub

44. Terraform Module for Multiply AWS Accounts and Regions

45. Best way to recreate resource - terraform taint up to v0.15.1

46. Best way to recreate resource - terraform apply -replace since v0.15.2

47. How to manage existing resources - terraform import

48. How to Import existing resources semi-automatically with v1.5+

49. Terraform Workspaces and when to use them - terraform workspace

50. Refactoring Terraform code, manipulation with State - terraform state - Part-1

51. Refactoring Terraform code, manipulation with State - terraform state - Part-2

52. Terraform validate, Terraform show, Terraform output, Terraform console, Terraform apply -target

53. Terraform Logs

54. Terraform Cloud

55. Terraform Enterprise

56. Terraform folders Hierarchy for Dev, Staging, Prod environments

57. How to use Global Variables

58. Lock file .terraform.lock.hcl

59. When to use and how works AWS S3 State Lock File

60. Review of HashiCorp Certified Associate Exam and how to Register

61. BONUS - Complex problem solution using Loop inside Loop inside Loop inside Loop

62. BONUS - Alternative AWS Provider - AWSCC

63. BONUS - How to Switch or Migrate from Terraform to OpenTofu and back