Terraform in GitLab CI - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to initialize Terraform in the GitLab CI job.

Terraform

terraform init [1]

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A-refresh=false

B-auto-approve

C-input=false

D-lock=false

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using -auto-approve with terraform init (it's for apply)

Omitting flags causing the job to hang waiting for input

The -input=false flag disables interactive input, which is necessary for automated CI runs.

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medium

Complete the code to plan Terraform changes in GitLab CI.

Terraform

terraform plan [1]

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A-auto-approve

B-out=plan.tfplan

C-refresh=false

D-input=true

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using -auto-approve with plan (it's for apply)

Not saving the plan file, so apply cannot use it

The -out=plan.tfplan option saves the plan to a file for later use in apply.

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hard

Fix the error in the apply command to run non-interactively in GitLab CI.

Terraform

terraform apply [1] plan.tfplan

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A-auto-approve

B-input=true

C-refresh=false

D-lock=false

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using -input=true causes the job to wait for input

Omitting -auto-approve causes the job to hang

The -auto-approve flag skips the approval prompt, allowing the apply to run automatically in CI.

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hard

Fill both blanks to configure the GitLab CI job to use Terraform with a backend and environment variables.

Terraform

variables:
  TF_VAR_region: [1]
  TF_VAR_env: [2]

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A"us-east-1"

B"production"

C"dev"

D"eu-west-2"

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using inconsistent environment names

Not quoting string values

Setting TF_VAR_region to "us-east-1" and TF_VAR_env to "production" passes these values as variables to Terraform.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to complete the GitLab CI job stages for Terraform init, plan, and apply.

Terraform

stages:
  - [1]
  - [2]
  - [3]

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Adeploy

Bplan

Capply

Dinit

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Putting apply before plan

Using unrelated stage names

The stages should be init, then plan, then apply to follow Terraform workflow.