Day 1: HashiCorp Terraform 201 – Scaling Infrastructure Automation

This course is aimed at existing Terraform users who desire an in-depth exploration of collaborative workflows and advanced features with hosted or private Terraform Enterprise.

Pre-requisites:

Completion of Terraform Fundamentals or work experience with Terraform.

This hands-on course covers topics such as:

Topics:

• Terraform Cloud/Enterprise Overview
• Workspaces
• Version Control Integration
• Code Organization
• Private Module Registry
• Null Resources
• For-Each
• Secure Variables
• Dynamic Blocks
• Conditional Operators
• Provider Lifecycles and Development

Labs:

• Workspaces
• VCS Connection
• Private Module Registry
• Null Resources
• For-Each
• Secure Variable
• Dynamic Blocks
• Conditional Data

Day 2: HashiCorp Terraform 202 – Enterprise Infrastructure Automation & Operations

Topics:

• Terraform Cloud/Enterprise Workflows
• Team Management
• Workspace Automation
• Private Module Registry Lifecycles
• Automated Testing
• API Driven Workflows
• Sentinel – Policies and Policy Sets
• Sentinel – Policy Development
• Sentinel – Policy as Code Workflow
• RPT Pipeline Optimization Plans (POP)
• Sentinel

Labs: 

• API Driven Workflows
• Sentinel – Policies and Policy Sets
• Sentinel – Policy Development
• Sentinel – Policy as Code Workflow
• Automated Testing

Students will walk away with a solid understanding of HashiCorp Terraform.

Pre-requisites:

Experience with HashiCorp Terraform is good to have but not required.

Agenda:

Day 1 – HashiCorp Terraform 101: Provision Modern Infrastructure 

Topics:

• Evolution of Infrastructure
• Terraform Installation and Configuration
• Terraform VS Code Integration
• Configuration Format
• Deployment – Init, Plan, Apply
• Providers and Resources
• Outputs
• Terraform Console
• Variables
• Auto-Formatting
• Modules
• Provisioners
• Graph Theory
• Meta Parameters
• Destroy

Labs:

• VSCode Integration
• Setup
• Outputs
• Console
• Variables
• File Layout
• Modules
• Provisioners
• Graph
• Meta-Arguments
• Destroy

Day 2 – HashiCorp Terraform 102: Intermediate Terraform

Topics:

• Data Sources
• Terraform State
• Examining Terraform State
• Remote State
• Terraform Cloud Basics
• Lifecycles
• Template Files and Rendering
• Debug
• Certification Prep

Labs:

• Data Sources
• Terraform Cloud
• Secure Variables
• Read State
• Lifecycles
• Template Files
• Debug
• Private Module Registry
• Sentinel

Students will receive access to their own personal Linux-based lab environment for the class.

This is a two day course and runs from approximately 9am to 5pm EST. This includes time for all lectures, lab exercises, Q&A, and several breaks (including lunch).

Location: United States – Online

Contact: rpttraining@riverpointtechnology.com for inquiries

Please note that we require a minimum number of student to run this course, therefore if the minimum is not met and you have already registered you will be moved to the next session.

Day 1: Consul 101 – Connect Dynamic Applications

This is a comprehensive, instructor led course aimed at users who desire an in­-depth exploration of Consul including service discovery, monitoring, and best practices for using Consul at scale. Experience with Consul is not required, but preferred.

Students gain a solid understanding of HashiCorp Consul.

Pre-requisites:

Experience with HashiCorp Consul is good to have but not required.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Consul Architecture
• Service Discovery
• Service Mesh
• Service Configuration
• Developing and Integrating with Consul
• Consul and Kubernetes Architecture
• Next Steps

Labs:

• Explore Your Datacenter
• Service Discovery
• Service Mesh with Consul Connect
• Key/Value Store
• Consul Template
• Getting Started with a Local Consul Agent

Day 2: Consul 102 – Datacenter and Security Operations

This is an advanced course for users who have previously taken the Consul 101 course.  The goal is to introduce more advanced Consul concepts that can be used to make your code more robust and shareable amongst different teams.

Pre-requisites:

• Consul 101 or Day 1 & 2 Learn tracks
• Previous Consul experience
• Comfortable with Linux and command-line operations

Topics:

• Module 1 – Day 1 Operations: Secure Deployment
• Module 2 – Day 2 Operations: Services and Maintenance
• Module 3 – Datacenter Federation
• Module 4 – Next Steps/Observability

Labs:

• Lab 1: Deploy a Secure Consul Datacenter
• Lab 2: Service Operations and Maintenance
• Lab 3: Datacenter Federation
• Lab 4: Consul Connect and Mesh Gateways

Students will receive access to their own personal Linux-based lab environment for the class.

This is a two-day course and runs from approximately 9am to 5pm EST. This includes time for all lectures, lab exercises, Q&A, and several breaks (including a one-hour lunch).

Location: United States – Online

Contact: rpttraining@riverpointtechnology.com for inquiries