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HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003) Exam Guide

HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003) Exam Guide

By : Chandra Mohan Dhanasekaran, Manjunath H. Gowda
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HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003) Exam Guide

HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003) Exam Guide

5 (19)
By: Chandra Mohan Dhanasekaran, Manjunath H. Gowda

Overview of this book

This HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003) exam guide simplifies technical content relating to the exam and helps you learn using real-world examples. The book is aligned with the latest exam objectives, which enables you to streamline your learning experience instead of referring to multiple sources for preparation. Moreover, the book is designed to serve as a "one-stop solution" for readers with varied levels of experience in Terraform. You'll learn how to efficiently provision and manage cloud and on-premises infrastructure using Terraform. As you progress, you’ll focus on essential commands, state management techniques, and best practices. Later chapters will show you how to harness the power of Terraform modules for code reusability and scalability. You’ll also gain insights into advanced topics such as debugging, troubleshooting, and leveraging Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise for collaborative infrastructure management. This book provides you with lifetime access to supplementary practice resources such as mock exams, flashcards, and exam tips from experts. By the end of this book, you’ll have the knowledge and skills you need to confidently tackle the Terraform Associate certification exam and excel in your career.
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Dependency lock file (.terraform.lock.hcl)

When Terraform configuration scripts are created to provision resources, there are two types of dependencies that need to be tracked: providers and modules. They have their own life cycles, as discussed already. Hence, it is necessary to track the right versions for providers and modules to ensure that you always work with the compatible versions for the current configuration, so that it does not get impacted by future version upgrades from the provider.

With the current features, Terraform can only track and work with different versions of providers but not modules. For modules, it always downloads and uses the latest version available.

Terraform can remember the versions for each dependency with the dependency lock file (.terraform.lock.hcl). So, it can use the same version every time with the help of this file.

Modules will be discussed in the following chapters in more detail, but you can consider them to be remote scripts that...

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