Understanding Terraform & IaC

1. 1From Pre-Cloud Pain to Infrastructure as Codep. 1
2. 2The IaC Tool Zoo: Five Categories That Do Different Jobsp. 2
3. 3Terraform: Cloud-Agnostic Provisioning, the Declarative Wayp. 3

Hands-On: Setup & Core Workflow

1. 4Hands-On: Install, Authenticate & the Core Loopp. 4
2. 5Hands-On: init - plan - apply - destroy & Backendsp. 5

HCL Syntax Essentials

1. 6HCL Building Blocks: Blocks, Attributes & Data Typesp. 6
2. 7Making HCL Dynamic: Interpolation, Expressions, Conditionals & Functionsp. 7
3. 8Resource Dependencies: Implicit References vs depends_onp. 8

Providers

1. 9Providers & the Plugin Architecturep. 9
2. 10The Provider Block, Aliases & Multi-Cloudp. 10

Resources & Meta-Arguments

1. 11Resources: The Atom of Terraformp. 11
2. 12Meta-Arguments: count, for_each, depends_on, lifecyclep. 12
3. 13Scaling, Organizing & the Provisioner Trapp. 13

Variables, Outputs & Data Sources

1. 14Input Variables, Types, Validation & tfvars Precedencep. 14
2. 15Outputs, Locals & Data Sourcesp. 15

State Management

1. 16The Terraform State File: Your Infra's Source of Truthp. 16
2. 17Remote State, Drift & Reclaiming Existing Infrap. 17

Modules

1. 18Modules: The DRY Superpowerp. 18
2. 19Composing, Consuming & Decomposing Modulesp. 19

Hands-On: Provisioning Real AWS Infrastructure

1. 20Hands-On 1: Your First EC2 Instance + S3 Bucketp. 20
2. 21Hands-On 2: Networking — VPC, Subnets & Security Groupsp. 21
3. 22Hands-On 3: Tying It Together — ALB, Route 53, RDS & Scalingp. 22

Workspaces, Best Practices & CI/CD

1. 23Workspaces, Environment Separation & Secretsp. 23
2. 24Static Checks, Git as Truth & Common Pitfallsp. 24