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Terraform fundamentals

Exam Review - Terraform Associate Certification (002)

Understanding Terraform basics

• Install terraform
  • manual installation
  • verify
  • terraform version
• Navigate Terraform workflow
  • terraform init
  • terraform plan
  • terraform apply
  • update resource
  • terraform destroy
• providers & terraform settings
  • Find and install providers
  • required providers
  • configuration
  • versioning
  • dependency lock file
• default local backend
• terraform state
  • terraform state list
  • terraform show

Read, generate and modify configuration

• resources
• dependencies
  • resource adressing
  • references to named values
  • explicit dependencies
• datasources
• input variables
• output values
• complex types
• built-in functions
  • count
  • file
  • templatefile
  • splat
  • lookup
  • conditionals
  • dynamic blocks
  • loops

Use the Terraform CLI (outside of core workflow)

• enable tab completion
• terraform fmt
• terraform validate
• terraform workspace
  • terraform workspace new
  • terraform workspace list
  • terraform workspace select
  • terraform workspace delete
• verbose logging
  • core
  • provider
  • path
• terraform console

Interact with Terraform modules

• finding and using modules
  • module sources
  • terraform registry
  • private registry
  • local modules
  • module versioning
• interact with module inputs and outputs
  • variable scope
  • outputs
  • child modules
  • meta arguments
• refactoring
  • standard module structure
  • moved block

Providers

• multiple configurations
• local provider binaries

Provisioners

• Provisioners
  • local-exec
  • remote exec

Terraform settings

• required version
• required providers
• experimental language features

Installation

• homebrew
• chocolatey
• apt/yum

Implement and maintain state

• remote state backends
• backend authentication
• state locking
• sensitive data in state
• terraform state mv
• terraform state rm
• terraform refresh
• terraform plan -replace
• terraform apply -replace