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

The `terraform validate` command is used to validate the syntax of Terraform files. Terraform performs a syntax check on all Terraform files in the directory specified and displays warnings and errors if any files contain invalid syntax.

This command doesn’t check formatting (like tabs, spaces, newlines, comments, and so on).




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# How to run validation

Validation can be run explicitly by using the `terraform validate` command or implicitly during the `terraform plan` or `terraform apply` commands. By default, `terraform plan` validates the configuration before generating an execution plan. If `terraform apply` is run without a saved execution plan, Terraform also runs an implicit validation.



# Pre-requisites

The configuration must be initialized before validation can run. Terraform attempts to validate the syntax of a configuration, including any modules, providers, and provisioners. The plugins for each resource are downloaded during initialization, and Terraform needs those plugins to understand and validate the syntax of a configuration.

# Example

Here's a quick example:


Learn how to validate a Terraform configuration.

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

Validate a Terraform Configuration

Purpose

How to run validation