This is a comprehensive, engineer-led course that covers two of HashiCorp's tools Consul and Terraform.

Topics include provisioning and managing infrastructure with Terraform, monitoring infrastructure with Consul, building reactive infrastructure with Consul tools, and using Atlas to manage and monitor infrastructure in a team environment.

Example subjects include:

• Terraform syntax, internals, and patterns
• Creating and accessing compute instances
• Provisioning resources with Terraform
• Registering instances with Consul
• Adding Consul health checks
• Building a dynamic load balancer with Consul and Consul Template
• Managing DNS with Terraform
• Evaluating changes with Atlas
• Building ephemeral environments

REQUIREMENTS

• Participants must have an active AWS account with permissions to create and manage resources there will be a small charge (less than $1 USD) for the tutorial to the account. Please make sure the account is verified. Do not use a company account or enable session tokens.
• Participants must have the latest version of Terraform installed locally.
• Participants must have administrator privileges on their laptop or the ability to escalate privilege easily.
• Participants must have a modern Internet browser such as Firefox, Chrome, or Safari.