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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

By : Ravi Mishra
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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

By: Ravi Mishra

Overview of this book

Terraform is a highly sought-after technology for orchestrating infrastructure provisioning. This book is a complete reference guide to enhancing your infrastructure automation skills, offering up-to-date coverage of the HashiCorp infrastructure automation certification exam. This book is written in a clear and practical way with self-assessment questions and mock exams that will help you from a HashiCorp infrastructure automation certification exam perspective. This book covers end-to-end activities with Terraform, such as installation, writing its configuration file, Terraform modules, backend configurations, data sources, and infrastructure provisioning. You'll also get to grips with complex enterprise infrastructures and discover how to create thousands of resources with a single click. As you advance, you'll get a clear understanding of maintaining infrastructure as code (IaC) in Repo/GitHub, along with learning how to create, modify, and remove infrastructure resources as and when needed. Finally, you'll learn about Terraform Cloud and Enterprise and their enhanced features. By the end of this book, you'll have a handy, up-to-date desktop reference guide along with everything you need to pass the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate exam with confidence.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: Core Concepts
10
Section 3: Managing Infrastructure with Terraform
14
Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary

Questions

The answers to these questions can be found in the Assessments section at the end of this book:

  1. Terraform is written using the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). What other syntax can Terraform be written in?

A. JSON

B. YAML

C. TypeScript

D. XML

  1. The following is a Terraform code snippet from your Terraform configuration file:
    provider "aws" { 
    region = "us-east-1" 
    } 
    provider "aws" { 
    region = "us-east-2" 
    } 

When validated, it results in the following error:

Error: Duplicate provider configuration 
on main.tf line 5: 
provider "aws" { 
A default provider configuration for "aws" was already given at 
main.tf:1,1-15. If multiple configurations are required, set the "______" 
argument for alternative configurations. 

Fill in the blank in the error message with the correct string from the following list:

A. version

B. multi

C. label

D...