Terraform with Azure - Complete Video Course 🚀

Welcome to the comprehensive Terraform with Azure video course! This repository contains all code samples and documentation corresponding to each video lesson.

🎯 Course Overview

This course consists of video lessons covering basic to advanced Terraform concepts with Azure cloud, including hands-on projects and real-world scenarios.

📋 Prerequisites

• Azure free account or subscription, follow this video
• Azure Fundamentals Video Link
• Visual Studio Code or preferred IDE
• Git installed and working knowledge of it
• Linux or Mac or WSL(Windows Subsystem for Linux)
• Linux and Shell scripting
• Basic understanding of YAML and JSON
• Networking Fundamentals
• IP Addressing Video Link
• Docker and Kubernetes Fundamentals Playlist Link

📚 Course Curriculum

Module 1: Core Concepts

Day1: Introduction to Terraform

• Understanding Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Why we need IaC
• What is Terraform and its benefits
• Challenges with the traditional approach
• Terraform Workflow
• Installing Terraform
• Code Sample

Day2: Terraform Provider

• Terraform Providers
• Provider version v/s Terraform core version
• Why version matters
• Version constraints
• Operators for versions
• Code Sample

Day3: Resource Group and Storage Account

• Authentication and Authorization to Azure resources
• Creating resource groups
• Storage account management
• Understanding dependencies
• Code Sample

Day4: State file management - Remote Backend

• How Terraform updates Infra
• Terraform state file
• State file best practices
• Remote backend setup
• State management
• Code Sample

Day5: Variables

• Input variables
• Output variables
• Locals
• Variable precedence
• Variable files (tfvars)
• Code Sample

Day6: File Structure

• Terraform file organization
• Sequence of file loading
• Best practices for structure
• Code Sample

Video 7: Type constraints in Terraform

• String, number, bol
• Map, set, list, Tuple, Objects
• Code Sample

Video 8: Meta-arguments

• Understanding count
• for_each loop
• for loop
• Practical examples
• Code Sample

Video 9: The Lifecycle meta-arguments

• create before destroy
• prevent destroy
• ignore changes
• replace triggered by
• customer condition

Video 10: Dynamic Blocks and expressions

• Dynamic blocks
• Conditional expressions
• Splat Expressions
• practical examples
• Code samples

Video 11: Functions in Terraform

• Built-in functions
• Practical examples
• tasks for practice
• Code Sample

Video 12: Functions in Terraform(Continue..)

• Built-in functions
• Practical examples
• tasks for practice
• Code Sample

Video 13: Data Sources

• Using data sources
• Practical examples
• Code Sample

Module 2: Azure resources using Terraform

Video 14: High available/scalable Infrastructure Deployment ( Mini Project 1 )

• Creating Virtual Machines
• VM Scale Sets
• Network Security Groups
• Loadbalancer, Nat Gateway, Public IP , Autoscaling rules etc
• Code Sample

Video 15: VNET and Peering ( Mini Project 2 )

• Virtual Network Creation
• VNet peering setup
• Code Sample

Video 16: Azure AD Authentication ( Mini Project 3 )

• Authentication methods
• Service principals
• Managed identities
• Code Sample

Video 17: Azure Web Apps ( Mini Project 4 )

• App Service creation
• Configuration
• Deployment
• Code Sample

Video 18: Azure Functions ( Mini Project 5 )

• Function App setup
• Configuration
• Code Sample

Video 19: Terraform Provisioners ( Mini Project 6 )

• What are provisioners and their use case
• Local vs remote vs file provisioners
• Demo of all three provisioners
• Code Sample

Video 20: AKS Cluster ( Real-time Project 1)

• Kubernetes cluster setup
• Custom module usage
• Custom module creation for AKS, KeyVault, SPN etc
• Code Sample

Video 21: Azure Policy and Governance ( Mini Project 7 )

• Policy creation
• Governance setup
• Code Sample

Video 22: Azure SQL Database ( Mini Project 8 )

• Database creation
• Configuration
• Code Sample

Video 23: Azure Monitoring ( Mini Project 9 )

• Metrics alerts
• Action Groups
• Log analytics workspace
• Log alerts
• Code Sample

Module 3: Advanced Concepts

Video 24: Terraform Modules (Real-time project 2)

• Public modules
• Custom modules
• Creating and publishing modules
• Project Files

Video 25: Terraform Cloud and Workspaces

• Cloud setup
• Workspace management
• Code Sample

Video 26: Azure DevOps with Terraform (Real-time project 3)

• CI/CD pipeline setup
• Automation
• Project Files

Video 27: 3-Tier Architecture (Real-time project 4)

• Complete architecture setup
• Best practices
• Project Files

Video 28: AKS Upgrade with Zero Downtime (Real-time project 5)

• Upgrade strategy
• Implementation
• Project Files

📂 Repository Structure

├── lessons/
│   ├── 01-introduction/
│   ├── 02-terraform-provider/
│   └── ...
├── projects/
│   ├── 14-vmss/
│   ├── 15-vnetpeering/
│   ├── 16-azuread
│   └── 17-webapp
├── docs/
│   ├── setup.md
│   └── troubleshooting.md
└── README.md

🎓 Learning Path

1. Follow videos in sequence
2. Complete hands-on exercises
3. Implement projects
4. Practice with provided code samples

📝 License

MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🔗 Resources

• Terraform Documentation
• Azure Documentation
• Course Support Forum