Terraform Workshop

Assumptions

• You have understanding of cloud environment you are deploying resources to.
• These labs will create resource which may have cost associated. Check pricing before creating resources.

How to configure

• LabSetup.txt have details on how to setup Lab envs.

Lab Details

01-A-simple

This is simple lab. Sort of Hello World kind of code. It will deploy single resource. Once you are done drop the resource.

01-B-simple

• This Lab creates resource. It has few lines disabled. Once your resource is created uncheck those lines and re-run the code.
• It shows idempotent property of TF.
• After completing this Lab drop the resource using terraform destroy command.

02-A-variables

• This lab shows how to use variables in TF.
• Drop the resource using terraform destroy after completing this lab.

02-B-variables_tfvars

• This Lab shows how to pass values to variables using terraform.tfvars file.
• Drop the resource using terraform destroy after completing this lab.

02-C-variable_types

• This Lab shows how to use list and maps variables.
• Drop the resource using terraform destroy after completing this lab.

03-resource-reference

• This lab shows how you can refer different resources in same terraform code.
• Drop the resource using terraform destroy after completing this lab.

04-Output

• This Lab shows how to output exported values of resouerce. Understanding of this lab is pre-req for next lab
• Drop the resource using terraform destroy after completing this lab.

05-remote-state

• This lab shows how to use Terraform remote state.
• deploy resource using code in folder A-XXX first.
• Create resource using code in folder B-XXX. It will reference ID of the resource created in folder A-XXXX using remote state.
• Drop the resource using terraform destroy after completing this lab.

06-modules

• This lab shows how to create modules.

• There are three folders

  1. modules
  2. my-1-XXXX
  3. my-2-XXXX
  4. registry

  modules directory have module code. my-1-XXX and my-2-XXX is creating resources using module in modules directory.

• registry directory has terraform code showing how use modules hosted on public registry

• Drop the resource using terraform destroy after completing this lab.

07-Multi Region

• This lab demonstrates how to deploy multi-regional or different types oof resource.
• Drop the resource using terraform destroy after completing this lab.

08-Loops

• This lab demonstrates how to different types of loops in Terraform.
• Drop the resource using terraform destroy after completing this lab.

09-backend

• This lab demonstrates how to use backends like object storage buckets.
• Drop the resource using terraform destroy after completing this lab.

10-data-source

• This lab shows how to use Data source.
• deploy resource using code in folder A-XXX first.
• Create resource using code in folder B-XXX. It will pull the ID of the resource created in folder A-XXXX using using data source and use it as reference.
• Drop the resource using terraform destroy after completing this lab.

smoke

Folder has test code to verify your local settings.

Gitpod Setup

To get started, follow these steps:

• Create Gitpod account https://www.gitpod.io/
• Install Browser Extension https://www.gitpod.io/docs/browser-extension
• Refresh code repo then you will be seeing Gitpod button
• [optional] Configure below listed environment variables https://gitpod.io/variables

AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=<value>
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<value>
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<value>
AZ_USER=<value>
AZ_PASS=<value>
GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT=<value>
GCP_KEY_FILE=<value>

Development Container Setup

To get started, follow these steps:

• Install and configure Docker for your operating system https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers#_installation
• Install Visual Studio Code extension - Remote Development (ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack)
• Open an existing folder in a container https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers#_quick-start-open-an-existing-folder-in-a-container