torivara/terraform-exercises

Exercises and solutions for Terraform Dojo coding session

Exercises for Introduction to Terraform

These are the exercises we will try to get through during our dojo coding session.

General guidelines

• Look up the resource type needed in AzureRM Provider Docs and work from there.
• If you have Hashicorp Terraform extension in VSCode you can enable code completion.
• Use git for version control if you want, this is not covered in our workshop.
• In all tasks you can, and should, use some form of formatting tool. This can either be autoformat or manually with terraform fmt.

Solutions will be provided halfway through the workshop.

Exercises

• Prerequisites
  • Objective: Install software and create needed resources
• Exercise 1: Optional exercises
  • Objective: Getting to know functions, expressions, variable types.
• Exercise 2: Defining Variables, Locals, and Outputs
  • Objective: Learn to declare variables, locals, and outputs.
• Exercise 3: Creating a Resource Group and a virtual network
  • Objective: Use Terraform to create an Azure Resource Group, and create a Virtual Network within the Resource Group.
• Exercise 4: Moving the state
  • Objective: Move the state from locally on your client to remotely on Azure Storage Account
• Exercise 5: Subnets Creation
  • Objective: Create more subnets within your Virtual Network.
• Exercise 6: Deploying an Azure Key Vault
  • Objective: Deploy an Azure Key Vault for secret storage. You should always store secrets in a secure vault.
• Exercise 7: Deploying an Azure VM
  • Objective: Deploy an Azure Virtual Machine (with public IP address).
• Exercise 8: Implementing Azure SQL Database
  • Objective: Create an Azure SQL Database instance.
• Exercise 9: Network Security Group and Rules
  • Objective: Implement a Network Security Group (NSG) with security rules.
• Exercise 10: Create a module
  • Objective: Create a module out of one of the previous resources you made.
• Exercise 11: Adding Application Gateway
  • Objective: Set up an Application Gateway to route traffic to your VM.
• Exercise 12: Advanced optional exercises
  • Objective: More advanced exercises for those that are done with the previous deployment tasks.