Terraform 101: Infrastructure as Code

A beginner-friendly introduction to Terraform — provision cloud infrastructure for data projects using code instead of clicking through UIs.

TerraformIaCAWSCloudDevOps

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What you’ll build

Terraform configurations that provision real cloud infrastructure: S3 buckets, IAM roles, a Snowflake warehouse, or a small database instance. State management, modules, and variables — everything needed to manage data infrastructure like code.

Skills you’ll practice

Terraform HCL syntax: resources, variables, outputs, locals
State management: remote backends (S3 + DynamoDB)
Terraform modules: reusable infrastructure components
Plan + apply workflow and safe infrastructure changes

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