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HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003) Exam Guide
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When you compare Terraform Community Edition with the HCP Terraform edition, you will see several new concepts have been introduced. Figure 9.1 shows the hierarchy of the concepts within HCP Terraform:
Figure 9.2: HCP Terraform concepts hierarchy
You will learn about some of the key concepts of HCP Terraform in the following section.
When you run Terraform locally, you have configuration files, a state file, and variables in a single directory (which is also your working directory). Terraform CLI always looks for configuration files ending with .tf
or .tf.json
for configuration, .tfvars
files for the values of the variables, and the state file to know the current state of the infrastructure in the current working directory (it does not look at the subdirectories).
When you want to organize infrastructure resources into a meaningful group, you create different directories and have the relevant configuration...