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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

Chapter 4

  1. Correct answer: A

Explanation: The Terraform support environment variable, TF_LOG, should be enabled with some trace label so that Terraform can start collecting logs and storing them in the defined path, TF_LOG_PATH. For more information, you can read the Terraform debugging page at https://www.terraform.io/docs/internals/debugging.html.

  1. Correct answer: C

Explanation: Terraform has inbuilt functions and max is one of them, so the maximum value among the given number is 10. For more information about Terraform functions, you can refer to https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/functions.html.

  1. Correct answer: D

Explanation: GitHub is not a supported backend type. For more information about Terraform backends, you can read https://www.terraform.io/docs/backends/types/index.html.

  1. Correct answer: C

Explanation: Terraform provisioners can be used to run some sort of script, whether it is on a local or remote machine...