Beginner Terraform Tutorial: How to Provision Azure and AWS Resources with Terraform

Cloud teams that still provision resources manually often struggle with inconsistent environments, slow change cycles, and unclear visibility into what changed. This Terraform course gives DevOps-focused teams a practical path to infrastructure as code across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, with coverage of Terraform configuration, desired-state deployment, incremental change updates, and GitHub Actions-based template deployment.

IT Directors and Team Leads should assign this to DevOps admins or cloud practitioners with a few years of infrastructure experience who need a shared baseline for Terraform workflows. The full curriculum is about 5 hours and 50 minutes per learner, making it realistic for onboarding, cross-training, or standardizing practices before larger cloud automation work. For change management, teams should plan follow-up discussions around naming standards, code review, and provider-specific guardrails before applying these patterns to production. CBT Nuggets Playlists and Team Reporting can help Training Managers assign the course and track completion across the team.

This training helps cloud and DevOps teams move from one-off provisioning toward repeatable infrastructure changes described in Terraform and deployed through predictable workflows.

• Standardize multi-cloud provisioning: Teams practice Terraform concepts across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud instead of relying on separate manual processes for each platform.
• Improve change visibility: Terraform’s desired-state model and execution planning help practitioners understand intended infrastructure changes before applying them.
• Support CI/CD for infrastructure: GitHub Actions coverage helps teams connect Terraform templates to automated deployment workflows.
• Reduce operational inconsistency: Shared Terraform patterns help Team Leads align cloud resource deployment and updates across admins, lowering the risk of configuration drift from manual changes.

Knowledge

• Terraform’s role in infrastructure as code and desired-state configuration
• How Terraform generates an execution plan to reach the declared end state
• Core concepts for deploying and managing cloud resources with Terraform
• How Terraform workflows apply across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud resources
• How GitHub Actions can be used to deploy Terraform templates

Ability

• Describe cloud infrastructure requirements in Terraform configuration
• Provision AWS resources through Terraform-based workflows
• Deploy and manage Microsoft Azure cloud resources with Terraform
• Apply Terraform templates through a GitHub Actions workflow
• Update infrastructure definitions and monitor incremental progress as changes are applied