Terraform is an infrastructure automation tool that allows companies to manage infrastructure through code. This provides many benefits such as greater recovery, predictability, and speed. Infrastructure as code is quickly becoming a standard for managing cloud resources and is widely practiced among the top high performing companies.
In this lab, you'll learn how to use Terraform to provision an Azure Function App which retrieves the current Bitcoin currency exchange rate from CoinDesk. During this lab, you'll be shown how to work with Azure Functions Core Tools, which when installed, provides you with the ability to setup a local development experience for creating and testing Azure Functions locally. You'll finish the lab by using Terraform to publish the locally developed function into an Azure hosted Function App.
Upon completion of this intermediate level lab, you'll be able to:
Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:
The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisite:
Jeremy is a Content Lead Architect and DevOps SME here at Cloud Academy where he specializes in developing DevOps technical training documentation.
He has a strong background in software engineering, and has been coding with various languages, frameworks, and systems for the past 25+ years. In recent times, Jeremy has been focused on DevOps, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Security, Kubernetes, and Machine Learning.
Jeremy holds professional certifications for AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS).