Terraform Basics - Managing Infrastructure as Code

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. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to managing cloud infrastructure with Terraform. By the end, you'll be able to automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, write and manage configurations in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), and deploy resources on AWS. You'll gain hands-on experience with AWS CLI, Terraform CLI, and state management, enabling you to confidently handle Infrastructure as Code (IaC) projects. The journey begins with setting up your environment, including configuring AWS, multi-factor authentication, and Terraform. You'll also install and configure the necessary tools like Visual Studio Code for efficient development. Next, the course delves into Terraform's core components, focusing on its configuration language and state management. Through practical projects, you'll learn to create and manage AWS resources such as EC2 instances and S3 buckets. This course is perfect for beginners looking to learn cloud automation. No prior experience with Terraform is necessary, though familiarity with cloud concepts will be beneficial.