Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud («TFGC»)

• Defining the business need for infrastructure as code and the benefits of using it in your environment
• Explaining the features and functionalities of Terraform
• Using Terraform resources, variables, and output values to create Google Cloud infrastructure resources
• Using Terraform modules to build reusable configurations
• Explaining Terraform state and its importance

1 Introduction to Terraform for Google Cloud
Introduction to IaC

• What is infrastructure as code (IaC)?
• Problems IaC can solve
• Benefits of IaC
• Provisioning versus configuration
• Imperative versus declarative approach

Introduction to Terraform

• Terraform overview
• Terraform features
• IaC configuration workflow
• Terraform use cases

Using Terraform

• How to use Terraform
• Running Terraform in production
• Installing Terraform
• Authentication for Google Cloud

2 Terms and concepts
The Author phase

• Terraform Directory structure
• Introduction to HCL syntax
• Resources
• Variables
• State
• Modules

Terraform commands

• terraform init
• terraform plan
• terraform apply
• terraform fmt
• terraform destroy

Terraform Validator tool

• Introduction
• Why use the Terraform Validator tool
• Validation workflow
• Terraform Validator use cases

3 Writing Infrastructure Code for Google Cloud
Introduction to Resources

• Resources overview
• Syntax
• Example
• Refer a resource attribute

Considerations to define a resource block
Meta-arguments for resources
Resource dependencies

• Implicit dependency
• Explicit dependency

Introduction to Variables

• Overview
• Syntax to declare a variable
• Syntax to reference and assign a value to a variable
• Variables best practices

Introduction to output values

• Output values overview
• Best practices

Terraform Registry and CFT

• Introduction to Terraform Registry
• Introduction to CFT

4 Organizing and Reusing Configuration with Terraform Modules
Introduction to modules

• Why are modules needed
• What is a module?
• Example

Reusing configurations by using modules

• Module sources
• Calling a module into the source configuration

Using variables to parameterize your configuration
Pass resource attributes using output variables
Module use cases, benefits, and best practices

5 Introduction to Terraform State
Introduction to Terraform state

• How information is stored in a Terraform state file

Ways to save a state file
Storing a state file in a Cloud Storage bucket

• Issues when storing the Terraform state locally
• Benefits of storing a state file in a Cloud Storage bucket
• Process of storing a Terraform state file remotely in a Cloud Storage bucket

Terraform state best practices

Learners will get hands-on practice building Google Cloud resources using Terraform.

Cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, and individuals who want to start using Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning with a focus on Google Cloud Platform.

To get the most out of this course, participants should:

• Complete Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
• Have basic programming skills and familiarity with using CLI
• Have general familiarity with Google Cloud

This course is part of the Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer certification path.

Products

• Compute Engine
• VPC Networking
• Cloud Storage
• Terraform
• Cloud Foundation Toolkit

Not covered

• Cloud Build