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HashiCorp Terraform Certified Associate Preparation Guide

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Introduction to the Course

Getting Started Course Overview

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code

What is Infrastructure as Code?Introduction to Terraform HCL Advantages of IaC Patterns Multi-cloud and Provider-agnostic Benefits of State Quiz on Introduction to IaC

Basics of Terraform

Plugin-based Architecture How Terraform Finds and Fetches Providers Using Provisioners, local-exec, or remote-exec Quiz on Basics of Terraform

Outside the Workflow: Using the Terraform CLI

Using the Help System

Formatting the Code

The terraform taint command

Importing an Existing Infrastructure

Creating Workspaces

Using Workspaces

Listing Resources within Terraform State

Moving Items in Terraform State

Downloading and Uploading the State File

Removing Items from Terraform State

Viewing Resource Attributes in Terraform State

Verbose Logging and its Outcome

Quiz on Terraform CLI

Terraform Modules

Module Source Options Module Inputs Module Outputs Variable Scope within Modules and Child Modules Terraform Public Modules Module Version Quiz on Terraform Modules

Navigate Terraform Workflow

Terraform Workflow Initialize a Terraform Working Directory Validate a Terraform Configuration Generate and Review Execution Plan for Terraform Execute Changes to Infrastructure Destroy Terraform-managed Infrastructure Quiz on Terraform Workflow

Implement and Maintain State

Describe the Default Local Back-end Outline State Locking Handle Back-end Authentication Methods Remote State Storage Mechanisms Effect of a Refresh Action on State The backend Block in Configuration Secret Management in State Files Quiz on Terraform State

Read, Generate, and Modify Configuration

Use of Input Variables Use of Output Values Secure Secret Injection Best Practice Use of Collection Types Use of Structural Types Create and Differentiate Resource and Data Configurations Resource Addressing and Resource Parameters to Connect Resources Terraform Built-in Functions to Write Configuration Configure Resource Using a dynamic Block Built-in Dependency Management Quiz on Configuration

Understand Terraform Enterprise Capabilities

Benefits of Sentinel, Registry, and Workspaces Identify Different Workspaces Important Features of Terraform Cloud

Conclusion

Quiz on Terraform CLI

Quiz yourself on the Terraform CLI.

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