Getting Started Terraform

Abstract

1. Introduction

Welcome to Terraform - Getting Started. These exercise files are meant to accompany my course on Pluralsight. The course was developed using version 1.12.2 of Terraform. Since the GA of version 1.0, HashiCorp has committed to no breaking changes until version 2.0. All the exercises in this course should be valid as long as you are using Terraform in the 1.X version family. The providers in this course have no such guarantee, so I have pinned the version where applicable.

I don't recommend taking the older courses, as they are out of date and do not cover the latest features of Terraform. I have left the branches available since you may be assigned an older course by your employer.

In the course, you are given a Terraform configuration for a basic web application from someone else on the Globomantics team. We are going to make a copy of this configuration and modify it over the length of the course. The base_web_app directory has the basic web app configuration, which we will copy over to a new directory called globo_web_app, and start making alterations.

2. Objective

Exercise files for my Pluralsight course

This project demonstrates how HCL, Terraform, AWS can be applied to a real-world Blockchain & Cloud Computing problem.

4. Technology Stack

5. System Requirements

General requirements for this technology stack — check the README for exact versions.

• Terraform CLI
• Cloud provider account (e.g. AWS) with CLI configured
• Git (to clone the repository)

6. Installation & Setup

git clone https://github.com/ned1313/Getting-Started-Terraform.git
cd Getting-Started-Terraform

Full setup instructions are in the project README.

7. Future Enhancements

Suggested extensions you can add to make this your own project.

• Add a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions
• Deploy to a public test network or cloud free tier
• Add monitoring and cost alerts

8. Viva / Review Questions

Common questions examiners ask for projects in this domain.

1. Why does this problem need a blockchain or cloud-native design?
2. Explain the smart contract / infrastructure components and how they interact.
3. How are gas costs or cloud costs kept under control?
4. How is the system secured (keys, IAM, access control)?
5. How would the solution scale to many more users?

9. Source Code & License

This project is developed by ned1313 and published on GitHub under the MIT License. Please follow the license terms and credit the original author when you use or modify this code.