Terraform state list command - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the command to list all resources in the Terraform state.

Terraform

terraform state [1]

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Ainit

Blist

Capply

Dshow

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Common Mistakes

Using 'show' instead of 'list' to view resources

Using 'apply' which changes infrastructure

Using 'init' which initializes Terraform

The terraform state list command shows all resources tracked in the current Terraform state.

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medium

Complete the command to list resources in a specific Terraform workspace.

Terraform

terraform workspace select [1] && terraform state list

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Aprod

Bdefault

Cinit

Dplan

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'init' or 'plan' as workspace names

Not selecting a workspace before listing state

Selecting the workspace prod before listing state shows resources in that workspace.

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hard

Fix the error in the command to list resources with a filter prefix.

Terraform

terraform state list [1]

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A-filter=aws_instance

B-state=aws_instance

Caws_instance

D-target=aws_instance

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using unsupported flags like '-filter' or '-state'

Using '-target' which is for apply, not list

The terraform state list command accepts a prefix filter directly as an argument, like aws_instance.

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hard

Fill both blanks to list resources filtered by prefix and output to a file.

Terraform

terraform state list [1] > [2]

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Aaws_s3_bucket

Bresources.txt

Cterraform.tfstate

Doutput.log

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Common Mistakes

Redirecting output to the state file itself

Using wrong resource prefixes

Filtering by aws_s3_bucket lists only those resources, and redirecting output to resources.txt saves the list.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to list resources, filter by prefix, and select a workspace.

Terraform

terraform workspace select [1] && terraform state list [2] > [3]

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Adev

Baws_lambda_function

Clambda_resources.txt

Dprod

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Mixing workspace names and file names

Using unsupported flags in the list command

Selecting the dev workspace, listing resources filtered by aws_lambda_function, and saving output to lambda_resources.txt is a common workflow.