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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

By : Ravi Mishra
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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

4.1 (11)
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)
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Section 1: The Basics
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Section 2: Core Concepts
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Section 3: Managing Infrastructure with Terraform
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Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary

Understanding Terraform debugging

Terraform provides multiple options for debugging. You can get detailed logs of Terraform by enabling an environment variable named TF_LOG to any value. TF_LOG supports any of the following log levels: TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, WARN, or ERROR. By default, the TRACE log level is enabled, which is the recommended one by Terraform because it provides the most detailed logs.

If you want to save these logs to a certain location, then you can define TF_LOG_PATH in the environment variable of Terraform and point it to the respective location where you want to save your log file. Just remember that in order to enable the log, you need to use TF_LOG with any of the earlier described log levels, such as TRACE or DEBUG. To set the TF_LOG environment variable, you can use the following:

export TF_LOG=TRACE

Similarly, if we want to set TF_LOG_PATH, then we can do so in this way:

export TF_LOG_PATH=./terraform.log

Suppose while running the Terraform configuration...

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