HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Professional 2025 | Udemy

This course is designed for anyone who wants to pass the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional Exam while mastering Terraform’s powerful features. Terraform Professional course takes you step-by-step through essential concepts, hands-on projects, and advanced techniques to ensure you’re well-prepared for real-world applications.

This course is structured to provide a clear path from foundational knowledge to advanced skills.

What You’ll Learn:

1. Introduction and Exam Prep

• Learn about the certification, prerequisites, and key skills required.

2. Linux Fundamentals

• Filesystem structure, permissions, and process management to support Terraform operations.

3. AWS Essentials

• Core AWS services, including IAM, S3, EC2, and networking basics, plus account creation and configuration.

4. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Discover the benefits of IaC and how Terraform brings them to life.

5. Terraform Basics

• Install and configure Terraform on multiple platforms.
• Understand its workflow, key commands, HCL language, Terraform workspaces and essential built-in functions.

6. Terraform State Management and Backends

• Work with local and remote state files, backends, and locking mechanisms.

7. Advanced Terraform Techniques

• Deepen your knowledge with:
  • Loops and Conditions: Dynamically create resources and manage dependencies.
  • Resource Imports: Bring manually created resources under Terraform management.
  • Lifecycle Rules: Implement lifecycle ignore changes and protect resources.
  • Modular Structures: Create reusable Terraform modules to simplify your configurations.
  • Dynamic Blocks and Complex Loops: Automate the creation of complex resource configurations.
  • Custom Validations and Testing: Add pre/post conditions
  • Terraform Tests: Implement automated Terraform tests
  • AWS Credentials: Discovery all ways to use AWS with Terraform
  • Providers: Dive to complex providers usage in Terraform

8. Terraform Cloud and Enterprise

• Explore advanced Terraform features, including cloud integration and enterprise-level solutions.

9. Exam Preparation

• Strategies, tips, and practice for acing the certification exam.

About the Instructor

Hi, I’m Kostia—a Cloud Architect with expertise in system design, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure. I hold multiple certifications, including AWS Solutions Architect and Terraform Professional. With years of hands-on experience building dynamic, scalable systems using Terraform, I’m here to share practical insights and help you pass the exam and earn certification!

Key Features

• 5 hours of high-quality video content: Concise and focused lessons to maximize your learning.
• Step-by-step guidance: Learn as we build and manage resources together.
• Useful links and resources: Get access to curated references and official documentation.
• GitHub repository with code: All changes and configurations covered in the course will be committed to a public GitHub repository for your convenience.

Requirements

• A computer and internet access.
• The ability to create an AWS account (we’ll cover the setup process in the course).

Why Take This Course?

By joining this course, you’ll gain the expertise and confidence to excel in the Terraform Professional Certification Exam and apply advanced Terraform skills in demanding, real-world cloud environments. This course is designed for experienced professionals looking to deepen their knowledge and master Terraform for career growth in cloud and DevOps roles.