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LI420: Terraform / OpenTofu Administration NEW

Training: DevOps

Participants learn to plan, create, manage, and automate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in cloud and on-premises environments using Terraform and OpenTofu – team-safe and reproducible. They understand architecture, providers, and state management, utilize modules, workspaces, and CI/CD workflows, and compare alternatives such as Pulumi, Ansible, and CloudFormation. Includes hands-on exercises with providers and best practices for modular reusability.

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Hybrid event	2026-06-08 \| 10:00 am	2026-06-10 \| 05:00 pm	Nürnberg
Hybrid event	2026-09-14 \| 10:00 am	2026-09-16 \| 05:00 pm	Nürnberg
Hybrid event	2026-10-26 \| 10:00 am	2026-10-28 \| 05:00 pm	Nürnberg
Hybrid event	2026-12-14 \| 10:00 am	2026-12-16 \| 05:00 pm	Nürnberg

Possible course languages: German

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Hybrid event

Start: 2026-06-08 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-06-10 | 05:00 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 2.250,00 € plus VAT.

Hybrid event

Start: 2026-09-14 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-09-16 | 05:00 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 2.250,00 € plus VAT.

Hybrid event

Start: 2026-10-26 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-10-28 | 05:00 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 2.250,00 € plus VAT.

Hybrid event

Start: 2026-12-14 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-12-16 | 05:00 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 2.250,00 € plus VAT.

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Agenda:

Fundamentals & Getting Started with Infrastructure as Code
- What is Terraform?
- OpenTofu (important addition!)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  - Declarative approach
  - Versioning
  - Reproducibility
  - Automation
  - Idempotency
- Traceability
- CI/CD integration - scalability
- Self-service infrastructure
Terraform Architecture & Core Concepts
- Provider concept
- Interface to APIs
- Responsible for:
  - Authentication
  - Resource management
- State reconciliation
- Areas of use
- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- On-prem
- Kubernetes
- SaaS resources
- No alternatives?
  - Pulumi
  - AWS™ CloudFormation
  - Azure Resource Manager
  - OpenStack Heat
Terraform & Vagrant
- Difference between provisioning vs. infrastructure
- Vagrant
- Local development environments
Terraform Enterprise & Cloud
- Terraform Enterprise
- Terraform Cloud
- Remote state
- RBAC
- Policy as Code (Sentinel)
- Team workflows
Practical Work with Terraform
- Installation
- Binary download
- Package manager
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Important CLI commands
  - init
  - plan
  - apply
  - destroy
  - validate
  - fmt
  - show
  - state
  - workspace
Project Structure & Settings
- Create a workspace
- Separation of environments (dev/stage/prod)
- Terraform settings block
Providers in Detail
- Provider functions
- API mapping
- Resource lifecycle
- Data sources
Practical Examples - Cloud Providers
- libvirtd
- OpenStack
- Amazon Web Services (AWS™)
- Google™ Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Microsoft™ Azure
- STACKIT™
- Hetzner
- Kubernetes
- VMware™
- GitHub
- Datadog
Creating Resources
- Compute resource
- Multiple resources (count / for_each)
- Modifying resources
- Network resource
- Floating IP
- Block devices
- Null resources
- Variables & outputs
- Datatypes
  - string
  - number
  - bool
  - list
  - map
  - object
- Declare variables
- tfvars
- Define outputs
- Migration to variables
- Data sources (querying existing resources)
State, Modules, Teamwork & Best Practices
- Terraform state
  - Single source of truth
  - Sensitive data
  - Drift detection
- State backends
- Local
- S3
- Azure Blob
- GCS
Modules
- Module structure
  - main.tf
  - variables.tf
  - outputs.tf
- Module best practices
  - Reusability
  - Versioning
  - Private module registry
  - OpenTofu registry usage
Working in a Team
- Git, SVN & co.
- Pull requests
- Branching strategies
- Code reviews
- Remote state locking
- Wrapper scripts
- Admin workstation concept
- CI/CD pipelines
Alternative Technologies
- Ansible
- Chef
- Puppet
- Pulumi
- AWS™ CloudFormation
- Google™ Cloud Deployment Manager
- OpenStack Heat

Objectives:

The LI420 Terraform / OpenTofu Administration course provides in-depth knowledge of Terraform, OpenTofu, and modern infrastructure workflows.

Target audience:

The LI420 Terraform / OpenTofu Administration course is aimed at:

DevOps Engineers,
cloud and system administrators
IT architects who want to automate their infrastructure efficiently.

The course is particularly suitable for participants who are responsible for cloud resources or on-prem environments and want to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in a hands-on way.

Prerequisites:

To attend the LI420 Terraform / OpenTofu Administration course, you should meet the following prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of cloud technologies and Linux systems.

Description:

In the hands-on course LI420 Terraform / OpenTofu Administration you will learn the fundamentals and advanced concepts of Terraform as well as its open source fork OpenTofu.

The course teaches how to efficiently plan, create, manage and automate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - both in cloud and on-premises environments. You will gain a solid understanding of Terraform architecture, provider structures, state management as well as the use of modules, workspaces and CI/CD workflows. Additionally, we compare Terraform with alternative technologies such as Pulumi, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, CloudFormation and other tools.

Through practical exercises you will create your own resources, work with multiple providers and learn to manage infrastructure in a team-safe and reproducible manner. Special focus is on best practices for modular structures, reusability and the use of OpenTofu as an open source alternative to Terraform.