Terraform Authoring And Operations Professional 2025

All in One course for Mastering Terraform and gaining the official Terraform Professional Certification

What you'll learn

PASS the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional EXAM.

ALL 700+ SLIDES available to download.

Gain REAL-WORLD insights in practical implementation of Terraform.

Little Theory. ALL Practicals.

Requirements

Basic Understanding of Terraform

Basic Understanding of AWS

AWS Account

Description

Unlock the next level of expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with our comprehensive HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional 2025 certification-based video course. Designed for intermediate level practitioners, this course is tailored to help you master Terraform concepts, optimize infrastructure management, and pass the official Terraform Professional Certification exam with confidence.This course also has a dedicated Exam Preparation Section that contains a series of challenges and practice tests to help you assess your understanding of all the topics that are part of the official exam blueprint and verify if you are ready to give the official Terraform Professional certification exams.One of the prerequisites for the course is the candidates should have basic practical knowledge of Terraform. Completing our HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate level course or having equivalent knowledge is recommended. We use a basic set of AWS services to demonstrate most of the Terraform concepts. Deep AWS integration, as required as part of the certification exam, is kept in the last isolated section of this course. This ensures that users from other provider backgrounds, like Azure and GCP, are also able to complete the six core domains as part of this course.Keeping the standards high, similar to other Zeal best-seller courses, this course has a perfect balance, and every topic is explained in a simplified way with practical scenarios.With the exciting set of new learnings and tons of practicals throughout this course, I look forward to seeing you in this course and being part of the journey to be Terraform Professional level certified.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Overview of Terraform Professional Certification

Lecture 2 About the Course and Resources

Lecture 3 Document - Code Repository and Our Community

Lecture 4 Central PPTs for Entire Course

Section 2: Domain 1 - Manage resource lifecycle

Lecture 5 Terraform in Automation Environments

Lecture 6 Terraform CLI - Commands and Options

Lecture 7 Importance of Input=False

Lecture 8 Importance of No Color Flag

Lecture 9 Overview of Provider Plugin Caching

Lecture 10 Practical - Provider Plugin Caching

Lecture 11 Explicit Installation Method - File System Mirror

Lecture 12 Practical - File System Mirror Configuration

Lecture 13 Static Analysis Tool for Terraform - External

Lecture 14 Installing Checkov in Linux - External

Lecture 15 Analyzing Terraform Code with Checkov - External

Lecture 16 Importance of Saving Plan to a File

Lecture 17 Code Scanning and Plan Scanning

Lecture 18 TF_IN_AUTOMATION

Lecture 19 Overview of Terraform Import

Lecture 20 Terraform Import Practical

Lecture 21 Resource Targeting

Lecture 22 Resource - Random Integer

Lecture 23 Resource Targeting - Handling Dependency

Lecture 24 Moved Blocks

Section 3: Domain 2 - Develop & troubleshoot dynamic configuration

Lecture 25 Escape Sequences in Quoted Strings

Lecture 26 Basic of Heredoc Strings

Lecture 27 Components and Types of Heredoc Strings

Lecture 28 Clarity - Whitespaces in Heredoc Strings

Lecture 29 Terraform Functions - jsonencode and jsondecode

Lecture 30 More Examples - jsondecode

Lecture 31 Overview of Data Sources

Lecture 32 Data Sources - Documentation Reference

Lecture 33 Data Sources - Format

Lecture 34 Use-Case: Fetching Latest OS Image Using Data Sources

Lecture 35 Practical - Fetching Latest OS Image Using Data Sources

Lecture 36 Overview of Input Variable Validation

Lecture 37 Input Variable Validation - Practical

Lecture 38 More Examples - Input Variable Validation

Lecture 39 Overview of Preconditions and Postconditions

Lecture 40 More Examples - Preconditions

Lecture 41 Check Blocks in Terraform

Lecture 42 Sensitive Parameter

Lecture 43 Overview of HashiCorp Vault

Lecture 44 Terraform and Vault Integration

Lecture 45 Resource Behavior and Meta Arguments

Lecture 46 Meta-Argument - LifeCycle

Lecture 47 LifeCycle Meta-Argument - Create Before Destroy

Lecture 48 LifeCycle Meta-Argument - Prevent Destroy

Lecture 49 LifeCycle Meta-Argument - Ignore Changes

Lecture 50 Revision - Data Type - List

Lecture 51 Revision - Data Type - Map (New)

Lecture 52 Data Type - Object

Lecture 53 Nesting in Variable Types

Lecture 54 Fetching Values From Variables with Nested Data Types

Lecture 55 Challenges with Count Meta-Argument

Lecture 56 Data Type - SET (NEW)

Lecture 57 for_each in Terraform (New)

Lecture 58 Conditional Expressions

Lecture 59 Basics of FOR Expressions

Lecture 60 Basics of CSVDECODE Function

Lecture 61 FOR Expressions - Part 2

Lecture 62 Create Multiple Resources based on CSV Values

Lecture 63 Nested Loops - For Expression

Lecture 64 Terraform Functions - Flatten and Distinct

Lecture 65 Templates in Terraform

Lecture 66 Templates - Dealing with Lists and Maps

Lecture 67 Exercises - For Expression

Section 4: Domain 3 - Develop collaborative Terraform workflows

Lecture 68 Terraform Settings

Lecture 69 Terraform Backends

Lecture 70 Implementing S3 Backend

Lecture 71 State File locking

Lecture 72 Integrating DynamoDB with S3 for state locking

Lecture 73 Terraform State Management - Dependent on S3 Backend

Lecture 74 Remote State Data Source

Lecture 75 Remote State Data Source Practical

Lecture 76 Overview of Terraform Test

Lecture 77 Terraform Test - Practical

Lecture 78 Terraform Test - Assert Block

Lecture 79 Terraform Test - Root Level Attributes

Section 5: Domain 4 - Create, maintain, and use Terraform modules

Lecture 80 Basics of Terraform Modules

Lecture 81 Creating EC2 instance using Modules

Lecture 82 Points to Note - Referencing Modules

Lecture 83 Choosing the Right Terraform Module

Lecture 84 Creating Base Module Structure for Custom Module

Lecture 85 Creating Custom Module for EC2

Lecture 86 Module Sources - Calling a Module

Lecture 87 Using Local Paths to Call Custom Module

Lecture 88 Improvements in Custom Module Code

Lecture 89 Variables in Terraform Modules

Lecture 90 Converting Hardcoded Values to Variables in Custom Module

Lecture 91 Improvements in Provider Configuration in Custom Module

Lecture 92 Module Outputs

Lecture 93 Root Module vs Child Module

Lecture 94 Standard Module Structure

Lecture 95 Moved Blocks - For Modules

Lecture 96 Multiple Provider Configuration in Modules

Lecture 97 Refactor Use-Case 1 - Renaming a Resource with Count

Lecture 98 Refactor Use-Case 2 - Enabling Count for Existing Resources

Lecture 99 Refactor Use-Case 3 - Enabling for_each for Existing Resources

Lecture 100 Refactor Use-Case 4 - Enabling count for a Module Call

Lecture 101 Refactor Use-Case 5 - Splitting One Module into Multiple

Section 6: Domain 5 - Configure and use Terraform providers

Lecture 102 Reference - AWS CLI - Config and Credentials File

Lecture 103 AWS Provider - Shared Config and Credentials

Lecture 104 Revising Named Profiles in AWS CLI

Lecture 105 AWS Provider - Setting Named Profiles

Lecture 106 Multiple Provider Configuration

Lecture 107 AWS Provider - Default Tags

Lecture 108 AWS Provider - Assume IAM Role

Lecture 109 AWS Provider - Assume Role Practical

Lecture 110 Dependency Lock File

Lecture 111 Overview of Debugging in Terraform

Lecture 112 Debugging Terraform - Practical

Section 7: Domain 6 - Collaborate on infrastructure as code using HCP Terraform

Lecture 113 Overview of HashiCorp Cloud Platform for Terraform

Lecture 114 Creating a New HCP Terraform Account

Lecture 115 Base Structure of HashiCorp Cloud Platform for Terraform

Lecture 116 HCP Terraform Practical - Creating Organization and Workspaces

Lecture 117 HCP Terraform - Core Practical

Lecture 118 The CLI-driven Run Workflow in HCP

Lecture 119 The CLI-driven Run Workflow - Practical

Lecture 120 Variable Sets

Lecture 121 Overview of Sentinel

Lecture 122 External Resource - Run Task

Lecture 123 Run Triggers

Section 8: Domain 7 - AWS Integration Practicals

Lecture 124 Data Source - AWS Caller Identity

Lecture 125 Data Source - AWS Subnet

Lecture 126 Create and Manage IAM User

Lecture 127 Create IAM Policies through Terraform

Lecture 128 Data Source - IAM Policy Document

Lecture 129 Creating IAM Role through Terraform

Lecture 130 Resource - IAM Role Policy Attachment

Lecture 131 Create Launch Template

Lecture 132 Create Auto-Scaling Groups

Lecture 133 Create S3 Bucket and Bucket Policy

Section 9: Exam Preparation Section

Lecture 134 Overview of Terraform Professional Exam

Lecture 135 Exam Appointment Rules and Requirements

Lecture 136 Booking the Exam

Lecture 137 Raising Accommodation Request

Lecture 138 Getting Used to Exam Environment

Lecture 139 Important Tip for Exams

Lecture 140 Important Part of Exams - Part 1

Individuals who are interested in learning Terraform in more detail,Individuals aspiring to gain the official Terraform Professional-level certification