AWS infrastructure via Terraform and Terragrunt

🚀 Design the High-Available AWS Infrastructure with Terraform & Terragrunt!

👩‍💻 About the Course: Terraform and Terragrunt are powerful tools for implementing infrastructure as code, and this course will take you through the journey of using these tools to design, build, and manage a high-available AWS infrastructure. Whether you're new to cloud services or looking to enhance your skills, this course is packed with real-world examples that can be applied directly to your projects.

Course Highlights:

• 🔑 Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Understand the principles and benefits of managing your infrastructure through code.
• 🎨 Terraform Modular Approach: Learn how to use Terraform modules effectively for reusability and maintainability.
• ⚡️ Terragrunt Advantages: Explore the additional capabilities Terragrunt brings to the table compared to Terraform.
• 🏗️ From Scratch AWS Infrastructure: Build your AWS infrastructure components from the ground up using best practices and patterns.

Course Workflow:

1. Introduction to "Infrastructure as Code": Get acquainted with the core concept.
2. First Steps with Terraform: Learn the basics and how it operates.
3. Installing Terraform: Set up Terraform on your local machine.
4. Implementing Resources: Apply Terraform to create your AWS infrastructure components.
5. Modular Terraform Scripts: Craft reusable Terraform modules.
6. Introducing Terragrunt: Understand how Terragrunt complements Terraform.
7. Module Implementation with Terragrunt: Apply Terragrunt to your Terraform modules for enhanced capabilities.
8. Developing Modules: Create modules for AWS services like KMS, Security Groups, Route53, ACM, ALB, ASG, Launch Templates, and more.
9. Final Project: Combine all the elements to create a fully functional infrastructure on AWS.

What You'll Achieve: By completing this course, you will have a complete set of Terraform scripts that can be orchestrated via Terragrunt to deploy a high-available AWS infrastructure with just a few clicks. 🎓

Infrastructure Components Covered:

• KMS Encryption Key: Implement encryption for your data at rest in the cloud.
• Security Groups: Define and manage security rules for your EC2 instances.
• Route53 Zone and Records: Set up a domain name system to handle DNS routing and traffic flow.
• SSL Certificates via ACM: Secure your domains with SSL/TLS certificates.
• Application Load Balancer (ALB): Distribute application traffic across multiple targets.
• Target Groups for ALB: Define groups of targets to balance the load for applications, such as web applications and back-end services.
• IAM Policies, Roles, and Instance Profiles: Manage access to AWS resources securely.
• Launch Templates: Standardize and automate the launching of EC2 instances.
• Autoscaling Groups (ASG): Automatically adjust the number of EC2 instances to respond to varying levels of demand.
• SSM Parameters: Store configuration data for your applications.

Ready to unlock the power of cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Terragrunt? 🌩️ Join us and start building tomorrow's infrastructure, today!