🏗️ Infrastructure as Code Essentials: Automate Your Cloud the DevOps Way
🧾 Course Description
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a foundational DevOps practice that enables you to provision and manage cloud infrastructure using version-controlled code — making your infrastructure reliable, repeatable, and scalable.
In “Infrastructure as Code Essentials”, you’ll learn the core concepts of IaC, hands-on usage of tools like Terraform, and real-world scenarios involving cloud provisioning, modularization, and automation. This course equips developers, DevOps engineers, and cloud architects to treat infrastructure the same way as application code — with testing, reusability, and CI/CD integration.
✅ Key Benefits
- ⚙️ Automate Infrastructure Creation — No more manual provisioning or drift
- 🔁 Version-Controlled & Reproducible — Rollback changes just like source code
- ☁️ Multi-Cloud Compatible — Use Terraform to provision AWS, Azure, GCP, and more
- 📦 Modular & Scalable — Build reusable and parameterized infrastructure modules
- 🔐 Secure by Default — Manage secrets, policies, and configurations consistently
🎯 Pre-requisites
- Basic understanding of cloud computing (e.g., AWS EC2, S3, IAM concepts)
- Familiarity with command-line interface (CLI)
- Optional but helpful: Git, YAML/JSON syntax, or CI/CD basics
- No prior experience with Terraform or IaC tools required
📚 Curriculum Breakdown
📘 Module 1: Introduction to Infrastructure as Code
- What is IaC? Benefits & challenges
- Declarative vs imperative IaC
- Popular IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi (overview)
⚙️ Module 2: Terraform Basics
- Installing Terraform
- HCL syntax, provider blocks, and resources
- Creating and destroying infrastructure (init, plan, apply, destroy)
🧱 Module 3: Variables, Outputs & State
- Defining variables and input parameters
- Output values and references between resources
- Terraform state files and state locking
📦 Module 4: Modular Infrastructure Design
- Breaking configs into modules
- Passing variables to modules
- Using remote modules from the Terraform Registry
☁️ Module 5: Real-World Cloud Provisioning
- Provision AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3)
- Reusable VPC + subnet modules
- Intro to Azure and GCP equivalents
🔐 Module 6: Managing Secrets & Backends
- Using environment variables and
.tfvars - Storing state in S3 and securing with DynamoDB locking
- Terraform Cloud & remote workspaces (intro)
🧪 Module 7: Project – Infrastructure Pipeline
- Deploy a complete AWS environment using Terraform
- VPC + EC2 + RDS + S3
- Parameterized variables
- Modular structure
- Remote backend
- Provision via CI/CD (GitHub Actions or Jenkins)
⏱️ Estimated Duration
| Daily Study Time | Estimated Duration | Learning Style |
|---|---|---|
| 2 hours/day | 12–14 days (~2 weeks) | Ideal for professionals and learners |
| 4 hours/day | 6–7 days (1 week) | Balanced theory + hands-on practice |
| 6 hours/day | 3–4 days (bootcamp) | Fast-track with real-world project |
🎓 Outcome
By the end of Infrastructure as Code Essentials, you’ll:
- Write reusable infrastructure scripts using Terraform
- Provision and manage cloud infrastructure with automation
- Implement infrastructure pipelines integrated with CI/CD
- Be ready for DevOps, Cloud Engineer, or Platform Architect roles
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