Terraform is an open source "Infrastructure as Code" tool - which can be used to automate your infrastructure builds.
This course explores Terraform, an open source tool which DevOps and SysOps engineers often use to codify their cloud infrastructure requirements. In this course you'll learn about Terraform from the ground up, and how it can be used to codify infrastructure. Terraform can be used to provision infrastructure across multiple cloud providers including AWS which this course will focus on.
Learning Objectives
Learn about Terraform and how to use it to provision AWS infrastructure
Learn how to build and create Terraform configurations and modules
Learn how to use the Terraform CLI to launch and manage infrastructure on AWS
Intended Audience
Anyone interested in learning about Terraform, and the benefits of using it to codify infrastructure
Anyone interested in building and launching AWS infrastructure using Terraform
Anyone interested in deploying cloud native applications on AWS
Prerequisites
Prerequisites which would be considered useful for this course are:
Knowledge of the AWS cloud platform and the various services within it - particularly VPC, EC2, and IAM
Basic System administration experience
Basic Infrastructure and Networking Knowledge
Basic SysOps and/or DevOps Knowledge
Resources
If you wish to follow along with the demonstrations in part two of this course, you can find all of the coding assets hosted in the following three GitHub repositories:

https://github.com/cloudacademy/terraform-aws