Gain insights into Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, sharpen your skills, and prepare for the HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification in a cloud-agnostic way.

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This course is designed to help learners obtain the Terraform Associate certification from HashiCorp. 

You’ve likely picked up this course because you dabbled in Terraform as a hobbyist or in a
development environment, and you’re excited about the possibilities of deploying Infrastructure 
as Code (IaC). It will enable you to sharpen your skills and prove your knowledge with a certification from HashiCorp. Terraform is an amazing tool to deploy Infrastructure as Code in a cloud-agnostic way. We’re excited to share our accumulated knowledge with you through this course.

HashiCorp Terraform Certified Associate Preparation Guide

# What is a backend?

Terraform needs a location to store its state data, which is called a back-end. In the absence of an alternate configuration, it stores the state on the local filesystem where the configuration is stored. Let’s examine the typical folder structure for an example configuration:

```console
.
├── .terraform
├── main.tf
└── terraform.tfstate
```

This Terraform configuration has been initialized and run through `terraform plan` and `terraform apply`. As a result, the `.terraform` directory holds the plugins used by the configuration, and the `terraform.tfstate` file holds the state data about the configuration.

The location of the local state file can be altered using the command line flag `-state=statefile` for commands like `terraform plan` and `terraform apply`.



Learn where and how Terraform stores its state data.

Introduction to the Course

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code

Basics of Terraform

Outside the Workflow: Using the Terraform CLI

Terraform Modules

Navigate Terraform Workflow

Implement and Maintain State

Read, Generate, and Modify Configuration

Understand Terraform Enterprise Capabilities

Conclusion

Describe the Default Local Back-end

What is a backend?