AWS Infrastructure as Code

Being a consummate cloud engineer requires many skills needed at various times: network troubleshooting, tuning virtual machines, and diagnosing poor application performance, just to name a few. But there are critical core skills used by engineers constantly. One of them is utilizing infrastructure as code, or IaC. Cloud engineers lean heavily on IaC to ensure fast and accurate deployments of resources. And the best way to learn IaC is in the context of cloud services as we learn about them, not in an isolated IaC video or module. But to do this, you need the basics, and that’s what this course is all about! The AWS IaC Basics course aims to give you basic knowledge of AWS CloudFormation and Hashicorp’s Terraform. We will look at using CloudFormation to build out basic templates and stacks in AWS. Then with Terraform, we will look at syntax, breaking the template across files, and the infrastructure lifecycle. As new AWS engineer courses are released, we will dive into more complex IaC solutions for each. And with the basic infrastructure as code knowledge provided in this course, you’ll be ready to tackle them.