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IaC with OpenTofu for AWS Fundamentals
OpenTofu is a community-driven, open-source fork of Terraform that ensures continued access to a powerful Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, free from licensing concerns and vendor lock-in. It...
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OpenTofu is a community-driven, open-source fork of Terraform that ensures continued access to a powerful Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, free from licensing concerns and vendor lock-in. It prioritizes transparency, collaboration, and the freedom to build and manage cloud infrastructure without restrictions.
This AWS OpenTofu course teaches attendees how to use OpenTofu for deploying and managing resources on AWS. After learning OpenTofu basics, students advance to IaC OpenTofu workflows, the AWS Terraform provider, and AWS resources. In addition, attendees dive into HCL programming, incorporating best practices, troubleshooting, and integrating OpenTofu into their organizations with automation and GitOps.
Skills Gained
- Understand IaC and OpenTofu, and their application to AWS
- Understand how IaC stacks up against traditional scripting
- Initiate an OpenTofu project and use the OpenTofu CLI
- Explore OpenTofu's architecture and AWS provider fundamentals
- Use Hashicorp's AWS provider
- Enhance OpenTofu HCL programming skills
- Explore resources, data sources, modules, and OpenTofu state
- Understand the architecture of OpenTofu and how it impacts IaC workflows
- Work with HCL Data Source blocks
- Understand custom modules and general module architecture
- Grasp the inner workings of OpenTofu state management.
- Debug OpenTofu scripts and apply IaC principles.
- Understand how to debug and troubleshoot OpenTofu projects targeting AWS
- Apply resource management strategies maintaining security and performance
- Explore OpenTofu within an organizational context and its integration with other tools
- Understand how OpenTofu workflows impact organizations and vice-versa
- Leverage configuration management tools for final configuration tweaks
- Implement OpenTofu within CI/CD pipelines and GitOps
- Integrate OpenTofu with other key tools for resource management
- Compare OpenTofu and Terraform
Who Can Benefit
The ideal audience for this course works with cloud infrastructure, has basic working knowledge of Linux and Windows based systems including Bash or PowerShell, in addition to a basic understanding of AWS.
Course Details
Course Outline
Infrastructure as Code Overview
- Holistic Overview
- IaC vs Scripting
OpenTofu Basics - Getting Started
- OpenTofu CLI
- OpenTofu Project Structure
- OpenTofu Workflow: Plan, Apply, Destroy
- OpenTofu HCL Configuration Files
- Resources - Introduction
- Providers - Introduction
- Provisioning Infrastructure using OpenTofu
- Using OpenTofu Provider Documentation
Getting Started with OpenTofu and AWS
- Creating and managing AWS resources using OpenTofu
- State files and out of band changes - reality check
OpenTofu Architecture
- OpenTofu Development Architecture
- OpenTofu State
- Local State
- Remote State
- Intro to OpenTofu Enterprise and OpenTofu Cloud
- OpenTofu Registry
- Providers
- Plugins
- Modules
- OpenTofu CLI vs Provider version pinning
- CLI Compatibility Promise
- Provider Backward Compatibility
AWS Provider Fundamentals
- Provider Landscape for creating cloud resources
- AWS Provider Authentication
- Creating AWS resources:
- Compute: EC2 Instances, Lambda Functions, PaaS Applications
- Storage: S3 Buckets, EBS Volumes
- Databases: RDS, DynamoDB
- Network: VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, Internet Gateways
- Identity: IAM Users, Roles, Policies and attachments
- Architecting Infrastructure in AWS with OpenTofu
- OpenTofu vs CloudFormation and CDK
HCL Programming Basics
- Variables and Outputs
- Input
- Local
- Output
- Input Variables in Detail
- CLI Parameters
- TFVARS File
- Environment Variables
- Validation Rules
- HCL Expressions Basics
- Value Data Types
- Value References
- Strings
- Conditionals
- For
- Splat
- Operators
- Using Functions in OpenTofu
- Numeric
- String
- Collections
- Date and Time
- Type Conversion
- Encoding
- Filesystem
- Cryptographic and Hashing
- IP Network
- OpenTofu Best Practices - Basics
- HCL Coding Best Practices
- OpenTofu Project Best Practices
Resources Deep Dive
- Deep dive into HCL resource blocks
- Resource Blocks
- Resource Behavior
- Resource Dependencies
- Implicit
- Explicit
- Meta Arguments
- count
- depends_on
- for_each
- provider
- lifecycle
Data Sources
- Data Source Blocks
- Working with AWS Data Sources
Modules Deep Dive
- Modules Architectural Overview
- Writing Custom Modules
- Consuming Custom Modules
- Module Meta Arguments
- Publishing Modules
- Modules Best Practices
OpenTofu State Deep Dive
- OpenTofu State Architecture
- OpenTofu Backends
- Local
- Remote - Enterprise
- Remote - Cloud
- Remote - AWS S3
- Managing State
- State Drift
- Out of Band Changes
- Convention over Control
- Importing Existing Resources into OpenTofu
- OpenTofu CLI Import Command Usage
- 3rd Party Tools
Debugging and Troubleshooting
- OpenTofu Log Levels
- Debugging OpenTofu Scripts
- Audit Trails for Troubleshooting
- OpenTofu State File Issues
- Common OpenTofu Errors and Solutions
OpenTofu Best Practices
- Infrastructure as Code Principles
- Mutable vs Immutable
- Declarative Code
- Version Control
- Automation
- Resource Management Strategies
- Naming Conventions
- Modularization
- Resource Dependencies
- Lifecycle Management
- Effective Use of Data Sources
- Security Best Practices
- Secrets Management
- Principle of Least Privileges
- Use of Service Roles
- Performance Optimization Tips
- Parallel Resource Creation
- Reducing Interdependencies
- AWS Best Practices
- IaC Code Management
- Compatibility and Security
- Testing and Documentation
- Resource Management
- Environment and Automation
OpenTofu in Organization Context
- Centralized vs. Distributed Infrastructure Management
- Hybrid Infrastructure Management
- DevOps Approach with OpenTofu
- Using Managed OpenTofu Services
- Team Roles and Responsibilities
- Governance and Best Practices
- Case Studies and Real-world Scenarios
Last Mile Configuration using Provisioners
- Configuration vs State
- Integrating configuration management tools
OpenTofu in CI/CD Pipelines and GitOps
- Overview of CI/CD
- OpenTofu in CI/CD Context
- GitOps with OpenTofu
- Automated Testing of OpenTofu Code
- Infrastructure Deployment Automation
- Case Studies and Examples
- Best Practices and Tools
Integration with Other Tools
- IAC Tools that work with OpenTofu
- Creating a workflow with open source tools and OpenTofu
OpenTofu vs Terraform
- History of OpenTofu
- Using Providers from Hashicorp
- Migrating projects from Terraform to OpenTofu
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