Introduction.

expected time	requirements
45 minutes	none

Goal: Get to know each other and hear about how the course will be held.

Assignment

Please tell something about yourself.

• Who are you?
• From 0 to 10, what’s your experience with: git, cloud, infrastructure as code, terraform?
• What do you want to achieve? (Hint: Put this on a Post-it®.)

Terraform?

HashiCorp on Terraform:

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files

Let’s break that down:

• Open-source: You can view the code. There is an enterprise and cloud offering too, the “language” is freely available.
• Infrastructure as code: You can describe in plain text what infrastructure you need.
• CLI workflow: From a Linux machines, you can use the terraform binary.
• Cloud services: Terraform describes “resources”, which can be: machines, ip-addresses, loadbalancers, etc.
• Declarative configuration: You describe the infrastructure, Terraform will build (or destroy) it.

How

• Please ask questions when you have them.
• Please keep your camera on regularly.
• If you run into issues, please share your screen to troubleshoot together.
• A typical chapter has an explanation, exercises and a summary.
• You can take a break whenever you need to, we’ll try to take a break every hour or so.