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Build and Manage Infrastructure on AWS with Terraform
Learn how to build a robust Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) strategy utilizing Terraform on AWS. Get familiar with Terraform and its stateful nature, and then expand upon that by utilizing Terraform workspaces, imports, and other commands.
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Provision basic Infrastructure on AWS
In order to develop a robust DevOps and Infrastructure as Code strategy, you first need to become familiar with Terraform by provisioning some basic infrastructure and learning about the stateful nature of the tool.
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Manage Terraform state and Workspaces
Now that you are familiar with terraform state, you know it's important to have a unique state for each environment your team will be working in. So you begin to craft your IaC strategy around managing terraform resources inside of terraform workspaces to allow you to move a single terraform configuration file throughout the lifecycle of your environment, from development to testing in production.
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Update configuration to use Existing Resources
The real world doesn’t always offer the opportunity to start from a clean slate. Learn how to import existing infrastructure to bring it under Terraform control and adapt old infrastructure to your new workflow.
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Import External State Edits
Sometimes changes happen out of band and you need to be able to adapt those changes to your new workflow.
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