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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

  1. Which of the following is the best option for managing a large enterprise infrastructure environment using Terraform?

A. Data sources

B. Stacks and modules

C. Resources

D. Provisioners

  1. Suppose you have created a Terraform stack and you can see that the indentation of the Terraform code is not in the correct format. Which of the following Terraform commands would you run?

A. terraform sources

B. terraform init

C. terraform fmt -recursive

D. terraform plan

  1. Which command needs to be executed to download Terraform modules from the Github source?

A. terraform init

B. terraform syntax

C. terraform fmt

D. terraform plan

  1. You created a Terraform stack containing the following code
    module "azure_stacks" {
      source                   = "../stacks"
      resource_group_name...