IBM 8H501G - Operational Infrastructure as Code

Course Outline

Agenda:

1. Terraform fundamentals review
2. HCP Terraform features including State, Workspaces, Teams, Projects & Variables
3. Terraform VCS workflow
4. Advanced HCP Terraform features including Run Tasks & Agents
5. Packer fundamental
6. Packer features including Builders, Communicators, Provisioners, & Post-Processors
7. HCP Packer features including Automation, Artifacts, & Revocation
8. Integrating HCP Terraform and HCP Packer in a deployment pipeline
9. Hands-on Labs
10. Course Summary

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

Objective

Objectives:

• 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

Prerequisites

It is recommended that attendees have familiarity with HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL),how to write Terraform, basic Git usage, and basic Terraform Provider concepts. Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or another cloud provider is also valuable for attendees of this course.

Audience

It is recommended that attendees have familiarity with HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), how to write Terraform, basic Git usage, and basic Terraform Provider concepts. Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or another cloud provider is also valuable for attendees of this course.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.