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Take on Terraform quickly and easily with Pluralsight
No matter where you are in your career, you’ve likely heard the hype about Terraform, the “infrastructure as code” tool created by HashiCorp. This open-source software has been helping teams manage cloud services for years, becoming the automation tool of choice for many teams. Want to learn more and make the most of Terraform? Pluralsight has just the right Terraform tutorials, courses, and hands-on learning tools to take on Terraform for AWS, Azure, GCP, and other needs.
Why get Terraform training with Pluralsight?
When it comes to Terraform, we believe people learn best by doing. Sure, you can start with Terraform tutorials and engaging video lessons, but Pluralsight allows you to go hands on with interactive, live-environment labs and certification prep you won’t find anywhere else.
Why? Taking a learn-by-doing approach allows you to start with beginner Terraform skills, retain important information better as you progress, and gain valuable experience building (or automating) cloud applications relevant to real-world scenarios. Don’t just stare at a screen—start incorporating Terraform into your day-to-day work now.
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Need to ace an upcoming Terraform associate certification? Work with Terraform for Kubernetes? Deploy Lambda using Terraform for your company? It all starts with the courses, videos, and hands-on labs you’ll find on Pluralsight—each designed to put you on the right learning path no matter your experience level. You could be a HashiCorp-certified Terraform associate in no time.
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Anyone can press play on an instructional video, but how will you get the practical experience you need to create Terraform modules or take on the Terraform modules built into the language? Say hello to Pluralsight hands-on labs that give you real, hands-on experience with the topics you’ll need to learn for Terraform. Use them in line with course training to reinforce lessons or access them anytime as your go-to for development on the job. The breadth and depth of hands-on labs allows you and your teams to take on the exact skills needed, exactly when you need them.
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FAQs
What is Terraform? And why should you learn Terraform skills? Get answers to these and other frequently asked questions.
Terraform is an open-source software developed by HashiCorp that’s utilized as an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool. When companies and cloud services need to update and maintain their vast infrastructure, IaC tools allow them to do so safely and efficiently rather than working with each machine manually. Over the past few years, Terraform has emerged as one of the most well-known tools for IaC needs, making Terraform training, skills, and certifications more in demand than ever.
Terraform’s open-source software may be easy to find and access online, but getting the most out of its utility for IT teams and unique, scalable solutions may require expert guidance. It’s part of the reason official Terraform certifications exist and are sometimes required to pursue certain jobs.
We suggest choosing a learning path that starts with the basics, gives you hands-on experience with real-world applications of Terraform, and prepares you for official Terraform certifications needed for your infrastructure or specific requirements from a prospective employer. Pluralsight Skills offers the courses, hands-on labs, and certification programs you need. And you can try them for free.
While they’re both open source software and considered infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, certain teams or organizations may have a preference between Terraform and Ansible.
Generally, you’ll see Terraform recommended for from-scratch infrastructure setups related to cloud services and Ansible for ongoing automation and updates to existing infrastructure. For more in-depth information about specific uses for each of these tools, try out courses from Pluralsight Skills or look into the information provided by each software’s developer.
Talk to most DevOps professionals and Terraform and AWS CloudFormation are bound to come up. Both are infrastructure as code (IaC) tools IT teams swear by for cloud infrastructure management.
CloudFormation is managed by AWS and stretches across the services AWS offers. However, Terraform can work with cloud environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and others. In terms of starting out and ease of use, CloudFormation is based in the widely used JSON and YAML languages, whereas Terraform is used in HCL (Hashicorp Configuration Language) developed by Terraform creator HashiCorp.
Each has strengths and weaknesses based on the specific needs of your cloud infrastructure, so consider your short- and long-term cloud infrastructure or cloud learning goals when comparing the two softwares.
Rather than choose one over the other, many organizations use Terraform and Kubernetes together for their cloud infrastructure needs. That’s because while Terraform is an open source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that helps organizations spin up and maintain infrastructure, Kubernetes is a popular open source orchestration system working to do things like schedule or manage workloads for efficiency.
Put simply, Terraform can help manage Kubernetes, which can help efficiently and effectively manage resources within your infrastructure. For more in-depth knowledge on Terraform and Kubernetes and how they might work with your upskilling or infrastructure needs, look to the developers and foundations that maintain these systems or try jumping into Terraform courses on Pluralsight Skills.
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What important updates or industry news is affecting the Terraform community? Our blog is a great place to read up on the new and notable, go deep on nuanced topics, and get tips and tricks from Terraform experts.