HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) Course Curriculum 

• Understand Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts

  • Explain what IaC is
  • Describe advantages of IaC patterns

• Understand the purpose of Terraform (vs other IaC)

  • Explain multi-cloud and provider-agnostic benefits
  • Explain the benefits of state

• Understand Terraform basics

  • Install and version Terraform providers
  • Describe plugin-based architecture
  • Write Terraform configuration using multiple providers
  • Describe how Terraform finds and fetches providers

• Use Terraform outside the core workflow

  • Describe when to use terraform import to import existing infrastructure into your Terraform state
  • Use terraform state to view Terraform state
  • Describe when to enable verbose logging and what the outcome/value is

• Interact with Terraform modules

  • Contrast and use different module source options, including the public Terraform Module Registry
  • Interact with module inputs and outputs
  • Describe variable scope within modules/child modules
  • Set module version

• Use the core Terraform workflow

  • Describe Terraform workflow (Write -> Plan -> Create)
  • Initialize a Terraform working directory (terraform init)
  • Validate a Terraform configuration (terraform validate)
  • Generate and review an execution plan for Terraform (terraform plan)
  • Execute changes to infrastructure with Terraform (terraform apply)
  • Destroy Terraform-managed infrastructure (terraform destroy)
  • Apply formatting and style adjustments to a configuration (terraform fmt)

• Implement and maintain state

  • Describe default local backend
  • Describe state locking
  • Handle backend and cloud integration authentication methods
  • Differentiate remote state backend options
  • Manage resource drift and Terraform state
  • Describe backend block and cloud integration in configuration
  • Understand secret management in state files

• Read, generate, and modify configuration

  • Demonstrate use of variables and outputs
  • Describe secure secret injection best practices
  • Understand the use of collection and structural types
  • Create and differentiate resource and data configuration
  • Use resource addressing and resource parameters to connect resources together
  • Use HCL and Terraform functions to write configuration
  • Describe built-in dependency management (order of execution based)

• Understand Terraform Cloud capabilities

  • Explain how Terraform Cloud helps to manage infrastructure
  • Describe how Terraform Cloud enables collaboration and governance

Further detail information: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/certification-003/associate-review-003