Why You NEED To Learn Terraform | Practical Tutorial

[@opa-age]

Nice to finally see a Terraform video that is an actual hands-on tutorial!

[@ozzyfromspace]

Dude, you’re an incredibly clear speaker, everything made sense and now I’m madly excited about Terraform. We use it at work but I’ve always avoided it in lieu of making changes manually. So amped! Also, I’m heading straight to your networking video next, so much to learn. And while people might nitpick aspects of your video format, I think overall it’s a solid 9.5/10 (nothing’s perfect, but you did a phenomenal job getting me to appreciate Tf and see why it’s worth getting into). Cheers mate!

[@SuperBlugh]

Travis has a very soothing voice

[@Fishamble]

Kinda reminds me of Obama.

[@adityakhedkar7754]

Hi Travis. Your videos are really helpful. It would be great if you increase the font size a bit for better visibility.✌

[@michelramirez6682]

Your teaching style is awesome! it will be great to have a second part of this terraform video in which you go more in-depth of other advanced topics such as modules, filters, terraform cloud providers, etc.

[@lvbio]

One thing I think was a missed opportunity here is that you didn't cover "terraform plan". Very important TF option to have in your toolbelt. That said, your stuff is great!

[@Raghugowni]

I like the way you explain. You don't refer any sheet for configuration with that you covered more content in short video. Thank you so much.

[@nati4536]

Absolutely love your teaching style, easy to follow, understand and remember. Great work!!!

[@mohammedhossain5041]

Thats an amazing “Intro to Terraform” Thanks Travis

[@Ciommi]

Hi Travis, here after my succeful asw saa exam. A video about the next routes after that would be fantastic, for exaple best routes to get hired or just like your thoughts. Even some resource to practice before get hired would be apprectiated. Love you!

[@EnglishRain]

Thank you this is a God sent I was looking to automate infrastructure using code!

[@shaileshntikhe]

This is the terraform intro video I was looking for.

[@kicknotes]

I really like your teaching style. No slide decks, no reading verbatim from notes, just real demos. This was a lot of great info in 27m. Thanks so much!

[@gervaisngah5644]

Thanks a lot.its more easier when listening to your teaching ❤

[@anassnasserallah9883]

Thank you Travis for sharing knowledge !

[@faculorenzo9679]

You do such a great hands on tutorials !

[@zeeshawnali4078]

This was an amazing intro, lots of great information in under 30 minutes!

[@bilalahmedkhan5876]

great video, really loving your content. Subscribed!

[@neusprach]

Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing!

[@jebotipasmater]

Awesome, just what I was curious about! Thank you! 🤙

[@DanMachlenkin]

Thank you very much for making this video!

[@md.mainuddin8211]

Good job done. Thanks a lot

[@freakphysics]

Great video and content. But i agree with some of the comments below: it would be nice if you could zoom to your code or increase fontsize. It‘s hard to read

[@TravisMedia]

I appreciate the feedback! Will do so going forward.

[@freakphysics]

@@TravisMedia Do you have a best pick course for terraform on Udemy (for all platforms)? You completely convinced me with this video.

[@johnnybegood948]

Im trying to get into Data Engineer. Thanks for the tuts.

[@mohittandon1931]

Travis, that is good - but again for the purpose of revising; what if I do not know terraform at all. I am looking for a video wherein i can learn how the terraform documentation be brough to use to set up infra through code, what do cloud/devops engineers calculate to deploy their infra.....(i mean following through the documentation)

[@rmt3589]

You can always ask Phind for help. That's my plan.

[@LouayMelliti]

That was really helpful ❤and professional 👏 thank you so much

[@egidfertal8240]

Thank you :) nice video

[@thrisharamkumar9566]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[@K71947]

Thanks for the video...i wonder what is the step to integrate with existing vpc?..normally the use case is to integrate with our existing infrastrucutre..please advice..

[@yadarthdhiman4904]

Thanks a lot for this useful video, Travis. Really appreciate it. I was curious if there's code file(raw) for the last portion of this demo?

[@Suresh06-w5w]

Nice demo👍🏻

[@andreacarvajal3098]

Hi Travis, what if the provider is local servers, does terraform work on that as well?

[@robey60]

When you talked about the profile, what if you had a profile named travis? How would you do that?

[@memyself4ever1]

I'm learning Terraform with Github and it's interesting.

[@youwillyou7905]

Great video 👍 A question: suppose I want to change my instance from micro to large, are all processes in the instance be stopped and started? I see you can run shell commands which can interact with our servers ( jaguardb vector database) to make adjustments to server configuration. That is cool. If processes do not get interrupted, it would really really cool.

[@TravisMedia]

TF can hadle that request, but AWS will stop the instance to upsize it (that's an AWS thing), so processes will get interrupted for that brief time. May be able to bring in a load balancer and add an extra instance that stays up while upsizing?

[@youwillyou7905]

@@TravisMedia yes, extra instance and load balancer would work perfectly for computing nodes or stateless nodes. Here in database servers, they use sharding for data distribution, the extra node needs synchronization with the main one. This can be done one by one, (with one extra node), for all nodes to be upgraded . it would just take time to copy data.

[@1apocalyps]

how was the AMI ID created or how did come to be? Thanks in advanced

[@TravisMedia]

Hey Gil! It’s hardcoded. When you go to launch an EC2 instance you can choose “Browse More APIs” and find an AWS provided AMI and get the ID there. I just found an Amazon Linux 2 AMI and got the AMI Id and used that.

[@underflowexception]

is there a way to build out and test the entire infra locally before deploying to the cloud? can all this be done using a free tier?

[@jasonassaf2482]

Hi do you plan on doing an ansible video ?

[@TravisMedia]

I can, what would you like to see?

[@jasonassaf2482]

@@TravisMediasame as you have done with Terraform, intro and basic demo.

[@PushpinderSingh2751]

The value of your content has won my subscription fair and square

[@behrad8860]

what is VPC? virtual port Channel ?

[@bendibhafed1687]

Just amazing !

[@emmanuelevbuomwan2665]

I was first in incognito mode, I had to switch over just to hit the subscribe button.

[@devopsjockey]

Any prerequisites

[@nikola4628]

where did you get id from? did you really type that think? is there some link or using aws cli to get list of that ids?

[@mchannel1365]

why use Terraform when you can do all by Rest APIs ?

[@rmt3589]

What's Rest?

[@manojkumar-jt3fw]

Is JAVA needed for Kubernetis ?

[@TravisMedia]

Nope

[@manojkumar-jt3fw]

@@TravisMedia Many of my friends told me to learn Java & python b4 getting into DevOps. So, Java will not help me in any way during my DevOps preparation ?

[@TravisMedia]

@@manojkumar-jt3fw oh it can help, sure. But it doesn’t help with Kubernetes specifically.

[@TravisMedia]

You should learn a language before or while learning DevOps, yes. I would lean Python over Java

[@manojkumar-jt3fw]

@@TravisMedia Tanx for the suggestion. As of now i only have Udemy bootcamps to learn Python. Can u suggest which one to pick up, Angela Yu or Jean-Paul Roberts+ TimBuchalka ?

[@Albertux]

Terraform is not cloud agnostic you need to write each terraform definition based on the cloud provider

[@LeonegasHolmes]

Terraform is not open source any more 😢

[@everyonesview]

You say 30 seconds to spin things up, right? How long did it take you to wirite all the Terraform code to do all that? Playing the devil's advocate 😃

[@pnuema1.618]

Maybe it took him two hours once. Then, in 30 seconds forever, he can spin up new environments around the world, deploy more environments to meet demand, spin up a lab environment, etc. I know you know this.

[@yaronshshe8579]

more hands on and less theoretical please

[@softcolly8753]

I like your tutorials, it's a shame that your accent reminds me of Obama.

[@vinvvinv7460]

Hi can you please make a video & explain the writing/structure of Ansible & Terraform in a simple manner & in layman's terms, like when & where to add spaces, hyphens, what is variable, etc it's a bit confusing ... please it's a request, do reply

[@oyedeoluwafunbi9635]

I’m currently using terraform at work and I’m loving it ❤

[@sucreationstudio5752]

Hello sir I am currently in college IT engineering last year terraform is best yes or no Plz reply me

[@oyedeoluwafunbi9635]

@@sucreationstudio5752 yes

[@escrimo23]

Love how I stumbled on your channel for a monitor review, now I am hooked with all your other content! Thank you for this great video, been playing around with it lately, so this is some good reminders!🙌🏾

[@RaymondYee]

Thanks for your video! Very helpful for consolidating my understanding of terraform as a newbie. (I wrote my first terraform configuration file today.)

[@Gaijin101]

Memorizing the entire config for aws is however a nightmare.

[@ThabeloRamabulana]

Keep it up man...I love the content

[@arcanernz]

Terraform is multi-cloud but that doesn't mean you can take your aws template and move it gcp or azure, you still need to research and rewrite your whole infrastructure for the targeted cloud provider. And any differences in services you still need to be aware of and understand. Kubernetes is more portable but it still relies on cloud provider servers such as load balancers, vpcs, etc. which can work differently between cloud providers.

[@fabrice9848]

When using "terraform destroy" while having multiple instances, how to terminate a specific instance ?

[@twosaibackbot]

What are your thoughts on Wing/Winglang?

[@TravisMedia]

Looks neat! Though I’ve never used it.

[@rmatveev]

12:25 - I was not able to find this image in AMI registry. Suppose that it was replaced with a new one.

[@TravisMedia]

Probably. If you go to AMI Catalog, you'll see the latest Amazon Linux 2023 AMI. Currently it's ami-05c13eab67c5d8861 (64-bit (x86)) / ami-0840becec4971bb87 (64-bit (Arm))

[@rmatveev]

​@@TravisMediaI was not expecting such a swift answer :) Thank you for commenting on this, Travis!

[@markn8755]

You use ~/Desktop as your dev directory? I feel sick.

[@markn8755]

Jokes aside great video, thanks.

[@TheMakerdude]

Very cool and convincing. But now I want to know more! E.g. what if I wanted to actually spin up a 100 servers, I don't imagine I'd have to write down a 100 variable names? Or an autoscaling cluster or something? And maybe I missed something, but how did you provision your server with nginx? And I understood it should be very easy to switch between cloud providers, but this seems aws focused. I understand that not everything fits in one video :) of course I can google everything but I would definitely watch a followup!

[@Scarface1337_]

As a complete new person to Terraform you lost me on how you got the ami number for the linux instance.. I eventually figured it out but lol cmon man

[@rushabhjain584]

You explained a lot in short time. Great video. Very knowledgeful. Thanks and love from India ❤

[@mulengamulenga5449]

This is so wonderful; straight to the point. Do you have anything done for use with Azure as a Provider?

[@timecircle8420]

After watching some of your vids it seems like your journey started with webdev and you’re now in devops. I’m learning webdev now. Was the transition easy once you understood the webdev languages?

[@default_youtube_profile]

What if you have no default value and you just want user to enter a value ? how would you store that value ? as an empty string?

[@sharadkumar8353]

Hi Travis! First of all Super Thankyou!! I m new to terraform learning .. the way you have explained here with just one example that compelled me to like and subscribe. You channel is my new addiction.🤩

[@kofiantwi5678]

great video Travis but please any chance you can add the codes or have them some where in a git repo we can sort of copy and follow along the video ?

[@kemekenneth]

I love your videos Travis. Your VS Code and Terminal font sizes are really tiny something. 🙏

[@TravisMedia]

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll increase it in future videos.

[@MalikC.]

Such a great video. Thanks :)

[@kingroc3651]

How about to create 100 virtual machines in terraform at a time?

[@default_youtube_profile]

can you make the same with Oracle cloud please?

[@galleon8129]

19:22 and 22:53 seems to be the same thing, or is the user data for Nginx server the unique thing in 22:53?

[@nileshbhandirge4638]

Nice vedio, can this useful in vmware

[@unclehugo3413]

Not me searching for another stuff and stumbling on your video, now i am hooked. Thank you so much, big ups.

[@lamo2real]

thank you very much

[@rahulsood81]

Love you Travis for this video..

[@pmioduszewski]

Great content thx! instant sub

[@ndefoemma2101]

Superb!!! Straight to the point no long story . Thank you.

[@owenrooneycloudtech]

I've only recently put on my Terraform training wheels. I'm really loving it so far and this video has helped me to cement things in my brain. As a non programmer that's trying to launch myself into a new career I struggle with a few concepts but you have really helped me to understand them. However, I followed along with this project and I cant seem to figure out where I have gone wrong. My user data script runs fine and index.html is created. I need to fine tune my networking so I am able to view it in browser. I only get as far as a loading wheel so not sure if my SG or VPC are working as expected at the minute. Really love the content and your story resonates with me. One day I'll get there too!

[@sudo-bandit]

Thanks for the informative video! Ended a sub! Post more DevOps stuff please

[@TravisMedia]

Will do, thanks for the feedback

[@fabrice9848]

Great tutorial

[@clavdamo9105]

So well delivered.

[@SowedCastelli]

Sooo goood.

[@Suresh06-w5w]

Nice demo👍🏻

[@Deepu_8]

how is Travis is getting auto complete in mac terminal

[@TravisMedia]

oh my zsh autosuggestions plugin

[@Deepu_8]

@@TravisMedia Thanks man appreciate that

[@enpassant7358]

It would be so nice to have a job doing this. I'm learning so much but it would be a lot easier to retain that knowledge if I was putting it to real world use.

[@omarperez6308]

I feel this to the core!! With every technology honestly!

[@namanrawal5849]

Really great teaching style and presentation. Love it! Looking for Terragrunt next!

[@Raysureeea]

I like the idea. But if I would want to have 3 clouds supported, I still need to make the code 3 times right? Because all the different cloud providers like AWS, GCP and Azure have different syntax, right? So yeah, initially it will be more work, but then you can easily transfer to another cloud provider if one were to go unavailable. But what about servers? I mean if you deploy windows servers for example, all the configuration would have to be in like a script so it ran when terraform is creating the instance, otherwise it would just be an unconfigured windows server. I have lots of questions

[@TravisMedia]

The benefit is you only have one syntax (Terraform), but yes 3 cloud scripts. The alternative though would be a Cloudformation template (for AWS), ARM template (for Azure), and whatever Google uses for its deployment. All three different technologies and syntax with each one being proprietary to it's own cloud/solution. As to your second question, that would all take place in the script (and preferably all controlled via variables that can be easily changed/configured). You would essentially want your entire environment or potential environment to be reproducible from a "one-click install" script.

[@Raysureeea]

@@TravisMedia I would really love to see it in a real world scenario and how to really put it to use. Seems very powerful. My boss told me to look into it but it all seems a bit too complicated for me as a fresh-out of school Junior Cloud Engineer xD

[@macolul]

I just saw terraform this word recently, and saw your video now. Then I noticed this video was published 1 year ago😅. Thanks for making so many enlightening videos.

[@yannkefeleck1974]

Hi Mr Travis, U're a master chief ..wooowww...thank u

[@dwarslopers]

Cool that you combine your network video with this.

[@highoctaneharry]

So glad for this video, I just started having to touch terraform code last week. This got me up to speed at work.

[@lwazingcongo6995]

All the way from South Africa. Thank you sir

[@dadsire-TV]

Bro those first 8 minutes helped me a lot. Thank you.

[@rufaiadeniyi7019]

i think this is one of the best i have seen online..... 100 thumbs up for you

[@AaronGayah]

I enjoyed this video. Thank you for making it.

[@ikshvak]

another awesome video, thanks Travis

[@savingday]

Thank you for this video Travis!