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Skill · Cloud · Industrialize the cloud as code: Terraform, Packer, Ansible

Provision a cloud infrastructure in Terraform, with state on the provider's object storage

Provision networks, machines, volumes and filtering rules in Terraform with the cloud's own Terraform provider, and keep the state on its object storage.

Start lesson 1The Cloud domain

• 4 lessons
• ~3 h 10 of reading
• 3 quizzes
• 0 proof lab

The path

Where it comes from, where it leads

What you need to know first, where you stand on this skill, and what it opens next. Your status is computed in your browser, from what you have read and passed.

Before · 1 prerequisite

• Declare Terraform resources and data sources with pinned providers

Depending on the chosen tool, you also need:

• Scaleway (default)

  • Size, create and destroy cloud instances, GPUs included

• Outscale

  • Build a multi-zone private cloud network and filter its traffic

Recommended before · 3

• Share a remote, locked and recoverable Terraform state
• Choose and operate cloud storage, block and object, up to a restored backup
• Build a hardened machine image with Packer and clean up its build leftovers

This skill, for you

Provision a cloud infrastructure in Terraform, with state on the provider's object storage

Computing

It unlocks · 1 skill

• Configure a cloud fleet with Ansible through a dynamic inventory, idempotently

Lessons

How to learn it

This skill is learned with the tool of your choice; your preferences decide the path followed in your journey. Each path lists its lessons in program order.

With Outscale

4 lessons · ~3 h 30

Part 1 · Volet 3, références Infrastructure as Code (in French) 1 lesson · ~55 min

1. 1Référence Terraform sur OUTSCALE (in French)· 55 min

Part 2 · Volet 6, projet fil rouge 3-tiers (in French) 3 lessons · ~2 h 35

1. 2Vue d'ensemble du capstone (in French)· 35 min
2. 3Chapitre 1, Provisionner les 3 Nets (in French)· 60 min
3. 4Chapitre 2, Net Peering full-mesh (in French)· 60 min

With Scaleway

4 lessons · ~3 h 10 default

1. 1Infrastructure as Code : qui fait quoi (in French)· 30 min
2. 2Terraform : provisionner, et surtout détruire (in French)· 70 min
3. 3Challenge : le socle de l'outil interne en code, et son démontage prouvé (in French)· 15 min
4. 4Lab fil rouge : Packer construit, Terraform provisionne, Ansible vérifie (in French)· 75 min

Beyond the lessons

Assess, practise, pass the proof

Reading a lesson confirms nothing. A skill is confirmed by a passed quiz, practised in a guided lab, and put to the test by a challenge or a mission; an imported lab result is not verified by the site.

Assess yourself

3 quizzes

At the end of the lessons: passed at 70%, they confirm the skill.

Practice

No guided lab

No guided lab practices it yet.

Proof

No proof

Neither a challenge nor a mission with a proof yet.

Around it

Who requires it, who teaches it

Required by

• Cloud Engineer

Taught by

• Outscale (in French)
• Scaleway (in French)

Tool of your choice: Outscale or Scaleway.

Same block · Industrialize the cloud as code: Terraform, Packer, Ansible

• Build a hardened machine image with Packer and clean up its build leftovers
• Configure a cloud fleet with Ansible through a dynamic inventory, idempotently

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