Infrastructure as Code is a very important step in allowing you to scale 📈.

As soon as you have more than a handful of teammates and VMs to manage you will need a more structured mechanism of collaboration!

Episode 4 of the GitHub Actions: full course is out!

Learn infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform and AWS. In this episode we're going to cover everything you need to know to get start with managing your infrastructure, automating services creation / updates and destruction.

As usual, chapters are available for your convenience so jump to the topics most relevant for you:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:27 - A brief history of the internet

00:09:48 - Cloud fundamentals and common services

00:14:19 - Private Cloud (VPC / VNET)

00:22:58 - What is Infrastructure as Code?

00:27:32 - Intro to Terraform CLI

00:34:16 - Terraform configuration file deep dive

00:40:14 - Navigating the Terraform provider docs

00:42:59 - Creating a public / private RSA keypair with ssh-keygen

00:45:39 - Installing Terraform CLI in a Ubuntu container

00:52:24 - Create AWS access keys

01:01:42 - Introduction to Terraform Cloud

01:04:59 - Terraform cloud variables

01:15:42 - Conclusion