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Skill · Provisioning · Test cloud code on an emulator

Test infrastructure code without a cloud account: apply, empty plan and destroy, locally and in CI

Apply a Scaleway, Outscale or Exoscale Terraform configuration to an emulator, practise there without an account or a bill, turn it into a GitHub Actions or GitLab CI test that applies, replans empty and destroys without secrets, and state what such a test proves or not.

Start lesson 1The Provisioning domain

• 5 lessons
• ~2 h 40 of reading
• 5 quizzes
• 1 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 · 2 prerequisites

• Initialise, run and troubleshoot a Terraform project, from init to destroy
• Install, declare and troubleshoot a local cloud emulator, and point the official clients at it

Recommended before · 2

• Write a first pipeline and read its failures
• Keep an IaC repository healthy: layered structure, plan review, testing pyramid and secrets out of the code

This skill, for you

Test infrastructure code without a cloud account: apply, empty plan and destroy, locally and in CI

Computing

It unlocks · nothing yet

No other skill requires it: it is an end-of-path skill.

Lessons

How to learn it

5 lessons, about ~2 h 40, in program order. Each lesson ends with its quiz.

The program

5 lessons · ~2 h 40

Part 1 · Understand and install Feint 1 lesson · ~20 min

1. 1Build your first Terraform infrastructure in five minutes· 20 min

Part 2 · Drive Feint with your own tools 2 lessons · ~40 min

1. 2Test a Terraform configuration on Scaleway, Outscale and Exoscale· 20 min
2. 3Learn Terraform with no cloud account and no credit card· 20 min

Part 3 · Test, diagnose and know the limits 2 lessons · ~1 h 40

1. 4Test your Terraform in CI with no cloud credentials· 25 min
2. 5What Feint proves, and what it does not· 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

5 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

1 practical proof

• Challenge 1: an architecture on a tight budget

A practical proof is a challenge, a capstone or a declared lab.

Around it

Who requires it, who teaches it

Required by

• Cloud Engineer
• CI/CD Engineer

Taught by

• Feint Training

Same block · Test cloud code on an emulator

• Install, declare and troubleshoot a local cloud emulator, and point the official clients at it
• Check that a cloud client survives API failures: 503 and 429 errors, timeouts and truncated responses

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