DevOps in the Cloud with Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction and Prereqs

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: AWS Killed Cloud9! What now? READ THIS FIRST!

Lecture 3: Course Code

Lecture 4: New AWS Account Setup

Lecture 5: IAM Configuration

Lecture 6: AWS Billing Setup

Lecture 7: AWS Credentials

Lecture 8: Cloud9 Setup – Only watch this if you've used Cloud9 in your account before

Chapter 2: Using Terraform to Deploy our Cloud Resources

Lecture 1: Install Terraform

Lecture 2: Read me First!

Lecture 3: The AWS Provider

Lecture 4: Terraform Init

Lecture 5: Terraform Apply

Lecture 6: Terraform State

Lecture 7: Terraform Cloud Setup

Lecture 8: Exploring State

Lecture 9: VPC Variables

Lecture 10: Internet Gateway and Referencing Resources

Lecture 11: The Random Resource

Lecture 12: Lifecycle Policies

Lecture 13: Public Route Table

Lecture 14: Default Route Table

Lecture 15: Data Sources

Lecture 16: Public Subnets

Lecture 17: Count

Lecture 18: Private Subnets – Terraform Apply Yourself!

Lecture 19: Variables and the Console

Lecture 20: Local Values

Lecture 21: cidrsubnet Function

Lecture 22: Route Table Associations

Lecture 23: Security Groups

Lecture 24: Creating the SSH Key

Lecture 25: File Cleanup

Lecture 26: The AMI Data Source

Lecture 27: EC2 Initialization

Lecture 28: EC2 – Count – Terraform Apply Yourself!

Lecture 29: EC2 – SSH – Authentication

Lecture 30: EC2 – Userdata – Templates

Lecture 31: Terraform Taint

Lecture 32: Local Provisioners

Lecture 33: Destroy-Time Provisioners

Lecture 34: Cloud9 Security Rule

Lecture 35: Remote Provisioners

Chapter 3: Configuring our Instances with Ansible

Lecture 1: Skip me if not using Cloud9

Lecture 2: Read me before the next lecture!

Lecture 3: Ansible Installation

Lecture 4: Ad-Hoc Commands

Lecture 5: Inventory File

Lecture 6: Playbook Scaffolding

Lecture 7: The apt_key Module

Lecture 8: The apt_repository Module

Lecture 9: The apt Module

Lecture 10: Notes for the next lecture!

Lecture 11: The systemd Module – Terraform Apply Yourself!

Lecture 12: Mistake in Playbook Destroy

Lecture 13: Playbook Destroy

Lecture 14: Calling Playbooks from Terraform

Lecture 15: Ansible Retry

Lecture 16: Awaiting EC2

Lecture 17: Prometheus Playbook Scaffolding

Lecture 18: get_url and unarchive Modules

Lecture 19: User and Group Modules

Lecture 20: Loops, Directories, and Files

Lecture 21: Copying Files

Lecture 22: Ansible Templates and Variables

Lecture 23: The Service Template and systemd – Terraform Apply Yourself!

Chapter 4: Deployment using Jenkins

Lecture 1: Read me first!

Lecture 2: Installing Jenkins with Ansible – Terraform Apply Yourself!

Lecture 3: Jenkins Setup

Lecture 4: Github Setup

Lecture 5: Commit your Code

Lecture 6: Terraform Credentials

Lecture 7: Our First Run!

Lecture 8: Jenkins Apply!

Lecture 9: Jenkins and Ansible

Lecture 10: Read Me First!

Lecture 11: A Multibranch Pipeline

Lecture 12: Our First Jenkinsfile

Lecture 13: Jenkinsfile Environment Variables

Lecture 14: Jenkinsfile Apply and Destroy – Terraform Apply Yourself!

Lecture 15: Awaiting our EC2 instance using Jenkins

Lecture 16: Ansible in our Jenkinsfile

Lecture 17: Accepting input in our Jenkinsfile

Lecture 18: Jenkinsfile Input – Terraform Apply Yourself!

Lecture 19: Jenkinsfile Post Section

Lecture 20: Configure TFVARs Files

Lecture 21: Configure the Dev Branch

Lecture 22: Jenkinsfile Conditionals

Lecture 23: Abort Post Action

Lecture 24: Using JQ to Await our EC2 instances

Lecture 25: Adding our JQ Script to the Jenkinsfile

Lecture 26: Using Custom Outputs and JQ for Inventory

Lecture 27: Using Custom Outputs for EC2 Wait – TAY

Lecture 28: Testing our Apps with Ansible

Lecture 29: Optimizing our Test Playbook with Loops and Dicts

Lecture 30: Our Stack in Action