Create a Development Environment in AWS with Terraform

In this course we will set up a development environment to test serverless code. Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that will ease the provisioning and update of AWS resources consistently.

You'll learn how to:

• Create AWS resources using Terraform

• Accelerate Deployments with Terraform

• Build a development environment for testing and validation

• Follow a project-focused format so you can learn and follow along

  
  

Here's what you will do in this course, step-by-step:

Install the current version of Terraform on Linux (ubuntu).

• Determine requirements

• Work with a Linux-based EC2 Instance

• Install Terraform version 0.14.6

Create AWS resources using Terraform

Write HCL code to provision a python base Lambda function and a main SQS queue and a dead-letter queue.

• Working with Lambda and SQS

• Learn how to create Lambda function

• Learn how to create SQS queues

Update Lambda Function using Terraform

Terraform by default cannot detect changes in Python code, but using file hashes enables Terraform to detect changes and update Lambda.

• Use source code hash argument to update Lambda

Creating Workspaces

Workspaces are not only useful to separate HCL configurations, but also updating variables when deploying to either development or production environments.

• Learn how to use workspaces to update variables dynamically

Accelerating Deployments with Terraform

This course provides a quick guidance on how to implement Terraform in a development workflow. This method can be scaled to larger projects involving numerous AWS resources!