Why the workflow matters in Terraform - Test Your Understanding

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to initialize the Terraform working directory.

Terraform

terraform [1]

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Ainit

Bapply

Cplan

Ddestroy

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Common Mistakes

Using 'apply' before initializing causes errors.

Confusing 'plan' with initialization.

The terraform init command sets up the working directory by downloading necessary plugins and preparing the environment.

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medium

Complete the code to see what changes Terraform will make.

Terraform

terraform [1]

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Ainit

Bplan

Capply

Dvalidate

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Common Mistakes

Running 'apply' without checking the plan first.

Using 'init' instead of 'plan' to preview changes.

The terraform plan command shows the changes Terraform will apply without making any changes yet.

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hard

Fix the error in the command to apply changes safely.

Terraform

terraform [1] -auto-approve

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Aplan

Brefresh

Capply

Ddestroy

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Common Mistakes

Using 'plan' with '-auto-approve' which does nothing.

Confusing 'destroy' with applying changes.

The terraform apply -auto-approve command applies changes without asking for confirmation, which should be used carefully.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a resource and output its ID.

Terraform

resource "aws_instance" "example" {
  ami           = "ami-123456"
  instance_type = "t2.micro"
}

output "instance_id" {
  value = aws_instance.[1].[2]
}

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Aexample

Bid

Cname

Dinstance

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Common Mistakes

Using 'name' instead of 'id' for the output value.

Using a wrong resource name.

The resource name is example and the attribute to get the instance ID is id.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to define a variable with a default value and use it in a resource.

Terraform

variable "[1]" {
  type    = string
  default = "[2]"
}

resource "aws_s3_bucket" "bucket" {
  bucket = var.[3]
  acl    = "private"
}

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Abucket_name

Bmy-bucket-123

Dbucket_id

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Common Mistakes

Mismatching variable names between declaration and usage.

Using an incorrect default value format.

The variable is named bucket_name, its default value is my-bucket-123, and the resource uses var.bucket_name.