Learning terraform v12/v13 on Azure (Udemy.com)

The Pros: - An overall good beginners courses that could fast-path the student to gain an introductory understanding of Terraform, and how it works. - Instructor is on average easy to understand, but some prep work can definitely improve on the presentation. The Cons: - The course is a number of years and Terraform version out-of-date. Personally, that's partially my fault for not using it when purchased. - The course topics are not well structured. Sections are missed with Terraform concepts and/or features with Azure resources deployment. It will help if an overall end-state was specified at the beginning, and how new concepts or features will help build or evolve the IaC deployment. - The sections in teaching and associated with modules weren't ideal given how chunky the 'location' module became by pretty much taking everything and move it into a sub-folder. Some degree of decomposition will help students adopt better practices. What's show is align to the monolithic coding. Hope you find the time to update or develop and new version of this course and introduce new ideas and concepts. Thanks and good luck.

I feel the course is about the implementation skill of Azure infrastructure using Terraform, but this requires student having a certain level in Terraform and Azure. It is better to warn students to take fundamental trainings in both Terraform (eg. course about HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate) and Azure (course about Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals) before taking this course.

Excellent course, thank you so much for creating such a detailed course and logically divided functionalities into chapter. Also to the point and precise content in each chapters with extensive hands-on. I would love to see more courses from you and especially if you can do regarding best practises followed in terraform while creating module and environment wise state files. I learnt a lot from this entire course. Thanks again.

Kurz und knapp. So gefllt mir das.

I had 0 devops background or any coding at all. I have Azure Admin, AWS, and CCNA certifications. This course really got me to start (at least) to understand Terraform in HCL language at half way through the course enough for me to start messing with it. I was able to on my own open my own folders and start deploying and testing different ways to change the deployment. Really great course, definitely reccomend.

use of old versions of vs code and extensions

I have used this course to jump start myself into world of terraform. I am happy what I got. I think all important topics are handled. I would wished me that some best practices (e.g. never ever put passwords in your code) become introduced immediately and not few lessons later. Big plus is, that the instructor updates the course with latest and greatest. Contra: I have really missed all the lessons as git repo tagged by lesson number. I don't liked to typewriting, stopping the lesson, rewinding and correcting my typos... At least the lesson 8 contains the code attached that comes from lesson 7. Anyway good course.

It would be better if you can show inserting the values based on required and optional fields in terraform documentation.

One thing that would REALLY help is to show the architect diagram throughout the training session to pinpoint and show what object or infrastructure that we are standing up/putting in place to complete the end-goal objectives in this project. I have to build the mental image in my head on what we are working on or trying to accomplish.

At the beginner level, I expect to see a bit of detail on all the commands. For example, how do I get an Azure subscription, how to use the extension. I am a DBA working in RHEL environment, trying to learn using Terraform on Azure. I expect a bit more detail on how to get the basic tasks and I don't see adequate instructions on that.

Very good training on the fundamentals of TF coding. I would've liked to have seen more advanced coding. Such as creating both immutable and transferrable/re-useable code. This would be useful in my use case where I need to build out 100+ similar tenants for a global org. Also, more info on the capabilities of TF in general and how it's used in an enterprise org setting. For instance, a brief introductory overview of TF Cloud which I don't recall being mentioned.

This course was a very good fit for what I was after. I definitely recommend this course.