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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 Workflow

Quiz yourself on the Terraform workflow.

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