IBM Operational Infrastructure as Code

The target audience for the course are Cloud SRE's, DevOps Engineers, Sys Admins, SecOps, Application Teams, and similar roles that would benefit from knowing how to use HCP Terraform Enterprise to deploy and manage infrastructure as code.

After this course participants should be able to:

• Gain comprehensive knowledge of HCP Terraform and best practices for usage in Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Understand how to use Packer for creating machine images
• Understand HCP Packer and its automation & compliance features
• Understand infrastructure deployment patterns and automation
• Use course tools to develop and deploy applications in an automated deployment pipeline using IaC
• Course assumes familiarity with HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), how to write Terraform, basic Git usage, and basic Terraform Provider concepts

Day 1 

• Terraform Fundamentals Review
• Terraform Providers, State, Workspaces, & Variables
• VCS Workflow & Role Based Access Control
• Projects, Teams, & Workspaces
• Terraform Agents

Day 2 

• Packer & the Packer CLI
• Packer Builders, Communicators, & Data Sources
• Packer HCL for images as code
• HCP Packer fundamentals

Day 3 

• Automating Packer
• Packer compliance features
• Integrating HCP Terraform and HCP Packer in a deployment pipeline

Successful completion of the Terraform Foundations Course, or basic familiarity with HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) including how to write Terraform code is recommended. Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or another cloud provider, an understanding of basic Git usage, and basic Terraform Provider concepts is also valuable for attendees of this course.

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