Phase 6: Cloud Deployment in Client Environments · 55 min · Python · Terraform · AWS

Terraform for Reproducible Deployments

If it's not in Terraform, it doesn't exist in production.

What you will learn

Write Terraform: resources, data sources, variables, outputs, modules
Manage state: remote backends, state locking, per-client state isolation
Design reusable modules: VPC, Kubernetes, AI workload modules
Implement multi-environment patterns: dev/staging/prod with shared modules
Automate in CI/CD: plan/apply, drift detection, security scanning with tfsec

Objective

What you'll learn

This lesson takes approximately 55 min. By the end, you will be able to:

Write Terraform: resources, data sources, variables, outputs, modules
Manage state: remote backends, state locking, per-client state isolation
Design reusable modules: VPC, Kubernetes, AI workload modules
Implement multi-environment patterns: dev/staging/prod with shared modules
Automate in CI/CD: plan/apply, drift detection, security scanning with tfsec

The Problem

If it's not in Terraform, it doesn't exist in production. Manual infrastructure setup is unreproducible, unauditable, and impossible to hand off. Terraform gives you infrastructure as code: VPCs, Kubernetes clusters, databases, IAM roles, and DNS records all defined in version-controlled HCL files.

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