Infrastructure Automation with OpenTofu – Hands-On DevOps

Course Overview

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Unlock the power of OpenTofu to automate infrastructure provisioning and management with this hands-on DevOps course. You'll start by understanding the fundamentals of OpenTofu, its comparison to Terraform, and how to navigate its documentation. Through guided demos, you’ll set up OpenTofu across various environments and configure it for cloud platforms like AWS. As you progress, you'll dive into the OpenTofu Configuration Language, CLI commands, and provider management. You'll also explore registries, workflows, and resource handling, gaining the skills to define, update, and manage infrastructure as code. Dedicated modules will cover migration from Terraform, using input and output variables, and working with provisioners for automated deployments. Further, you'll master advanced concepts such as state management, remote backends, debugging techniques, and integrating OpenTofu with registries and modules. Hands-on projects will help you apply these skills in real-world scenarios, including AWS infrastructure, compute resources, and Kubernetes orchestration. This course is ideal for DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and system administrators looking to streamline infrastructure automation. A basic understanding of cloud computing and infrastructure as code (IaC) is recommended. Whether you're transitioning from Terraform or starting fresh with OpenTofu, this course will help you automate with confidence.