Infrastructure Automation with Terraform
Master your telco cloud automation skills with this hands-on Terraform lab. Build and manage complete Telco environments on OpenStack and Kubernetes, practice deploying CNFs/VNFs and 5G core components, and apply industry best practices in modular IaC design, security, and lifecycle automation through realistic, end-to-end scenarios.
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About The Lab
Prerequisites
Audiences
The lab architecture leverages Terraform as the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework for Telco environments, targeting both OpenStack and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. It enables the automated provisioning and management of the resources required to run CNFs, VNFs, and 5G core components. Participants will explore how Terraform orchestrates Telco infrastructure elements such as routers, firewalls, load balancers, virtual appliances, and Kubernetes clusters by interacting with OpenStack and K8s abstractions, while applying industry best practices in modular design, security, reproducibility, and end-to-end lifecycle automation.
Why this Lab ?
Through this lab, you will understand why Terraform is becoming a cornerstone of modern Telco cloud: you’ll learn how to industrialize the deployment of complex Telco topologies, enforce consistency across environments, and drastically reduce manual errors and lead time. By mastering Terraform with OpenStack and Kubernetes, you’ll be able to spin up, evolve, and tear down full Telco stacks on demand, support rapid experimentation with CNFs/VNFs and 5G core components, and build a foundation for large-scale, automated, and future-proof Telco cloud operations.
Lab Objectives
- Understand Terraform fundamentals and IaC benefits
- Manage Terraform state for distributed and large-scale environments.
- Automate lifecycle operations such as scaling, upgrades, and teardown.
- Use modules to standardize infrastructure provisioning across sites.
- Apply best practices for security, reproducibility, and collaboration in Telco IaC projects.
