Full Throttle: Azure Infrastructures with Terraform

You want to provision and manage your cloud infrastructure professionally yet still keep things simple? Then you should join this webinar and dive into Terraform with Thorsten Hans.
You will learn by practical examples how to automate your mission-critical workloads by adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and mastering Terraform.
Within an hour, you will learn everything you need to create and manage your cloud environments. Thorsten explains all necessary concepts and techniques like the Terraform workflow, how modules work, expressions, and interpolation, by live-coding an example infrastructure during the webinar.
After the event, you will be able to express your infrastructures in code, even if you are using different cloud offerings such as AWS, GCP, or Digital Ocean.

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1. Infrastructure as Code with HashiCorp Terraform Thorsten Hans @ThorstenHans Consultant
2. Focus: Cloud Native & Infrastructure as Code Consultant @ Thinktecture AG thorsten.hans@thinktecture.com thorsten.hans@gmail.com thinktecture.com thorsten-hans.com @ThorstenHans Thorsten Hans
3. Talking Points Terraform and Infrastructure as Code Introduction Terraforming Microsoft Azure Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions Terraform Resources
4. by HashiCorp • Toolset for Infrastructure as Code • Written in Go • Available for Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris • Open Source • Optional paid services • Terraform Cloud (adds collaboration features) • Terraform Enterprise (adds governance features) Terraform
5. Terraform Write, Plan, and Create 1 Infrastructure as Code 2 Preview Changes before applying 3 Build reproducible infrastructure
6. Terraform Write, Plan, and Create 1 Infrastructure as Code 2 Preview Changes before applying 3 Build reproducible infrastructure
7. Infrastructure as Code • Automate your Infrastructure • Can be stored in a version control system (git) • Change History / Change Tracking • Collaboration • Better documentation • Eliminates the Truck Factor (or Single Point of Failure) • Predictable deployments Terraform - Write
8. Terraform Write, Plan, and Create 1 Infrastructure as Code 2 Preview Changes before applying 3 Build reproducible infrastructure
9. Preview changes before applying • Execution plan tells you which parts of the environment will be • Created • Modified • Deleted • Displayed / Verified before modifying the targeting infrastructure • Think of git status Terraform - Plan
10. Terraform Write, Plan, and Create 1 Infrastructure as Code 2 Preview Changes before applying 3 Build reproducible infrastructure
11. Build reproducible infrastructure • One Terraform script can be applied million times • Configurable environments • Variables • Interpolation • Built-in functions Terraform - Create
12. Write Code Terraform plan Verify Terraform apply Consume The Terraform Lifecycle Terraform Destroy
13. HashiCorp Configuration Language • Declarative language used to code your infrastructure • Based on JSON but more focused • Simple but powerful type system • Strings, Numbers, Booleans, Maps, Lists • One language for all infrastructure vendors • Using dedicated Providers Meet the HCL
14. Talking Points Terraform and Infrastructure as Code Introduction Terraforming Microsoft Azure Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions Terraform Resources
15. The AzureRM Provider • Terraform Provider supports all ARM API Features • Different Authentication patterns supported • Reuse Azure CLI Authentication • Dedicated Service Principal • Dedicated Managed Service Identity • Read/Write Azure Resources Terraforming Microsoft Azure
16. Demo Terraforming Microsoft Azure
17. Talking Points Terraform and Infrastructure as Code Introduction Terraforming Microsoft Azure Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions Terraform Resources
18. Terraform in GitHub Actions • Use official Action provided by HashiCorp to setup Terraform • Use GitHub’s Repository Secrets to establish context Continuous Integration
19. Demo Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
20. Talking Points Terraform and Infrastructure as Code Introduction Terraforming Microsoft Azure Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions Terraform Resources
21. Essential Features • Modules • https://thns.io/2R73oIQ • Workspaces • https://thns.io/2OZMs4Y • Terraform State • https://thns.io/2AftGS2 • Backends • https://thns.io/2DFyNOy Terraform Resources
22. Great free and paid resources • Terraform Guide for Azure enthusiasts • https://thns.io/terraform-guide • Terraform Best Practices • https://thns.io/2P0mb6z • Book: Terraform: Up and Running • https://thns.io/2QdJSNz Terraform Resources
23. Q&A If you have further questions: shoot me a mail at thorsten.hans@thinktecture.com / thorsten.hans@gmail.com or tweet at @ThorstenHans