⚡Terraform Full Course in 1 Hour — Hands-On for Beginners

DevOps Labs — Learn Real-World Infrastructure as Code

Author

Arbaz M
September 04, 2025

Why Terraform Matters

Terraform is the backbone of modern DevOps.
It’s how companies manage thousands of servers, networks, and cloud resources with code.

Here’s the problem:
One wrong Terraform config can cost a company $5,000+ in minutes.
But when used correctly, Terraform makes infra simple, repeatable, and safe.

▶️ What You’ll Learn in This Course

In this 1-hour full course, I take you from zero to deploying real infrastructure on Docker, and Azure.

📌 Course Breakdown:

  • IaC fundamentals → Providers, Resources, State, Variables, Outputs

  • First project → Deploy Nginx with Docker

  • Variables & Outputs → make configs reusable

  • Drift detection → watch Terraform recover infra when things break

  • Modules → build reusable Lego blocks for infra

  • Deploy a VM on Azure

  • Best practices → fmt, validate, remote state, cost checks

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🛠 Takeaway Code Snippet (Demo)

provider "docker" {}

resource "docker_container" "nginx" {
  image = "nginx:latest"
  name  = "nginx_demo"
  ports {
    internal = 80
    external = 8080
  }
}

Run terraform init && terraform apply → boom 💥 you just deployed your first app with code.

💡 Why This Course Stands Out

  • 90% hands-on → not just slides, but real coding.

  • Cloud-agnostic → Docker, Azure included.

  • Beginner-friendly → follow step by step, no prior Terraform experience needed.

This isn’t just “learning a tool” — it’s building the muscle memory you’ll use in real jobs and interviews.

👋 Final Note

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