Why workspaces separate environments in Terraform - Test Your Understanding

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to select the current workspace in Terraform.

Terraform

terraform.workspace == "[1]"

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Adev

Bmain

Cprod

Ddefault

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3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using 'main' or 'prod' instead of 'default' as the workspace name.

The default workspace is named "default" in Terraform. This code checks if the current workspace is the default one.

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medium

Complete the code to create a resource only in the 'prod' workspace.

Terraform

count = terraform.workspace == "[1]" ? 1 : 0

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Aprod

Bdev

Ctest

Ddefault

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'dev' or 'default' instead of 'prod' for production workspace.

This code sets the resource count to 1 only if the current workspace is 'prod', otherwise 0, so the resource is created only in 'prod'.

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hard

Fix the error in the condition to check if the workspace is 'dev'.

Terraform

if terraform.workspace = [1] { count = 1 } else { count = 0 }

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A'dev'

B== "dev"

C"dev" == terraform.workspace

D"dev"

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3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '=' instead of '==' for comparison.

Not quoting the workspace name string.

The single equals sign '=' is an assignment, not a comparison. The correct comparison uses '==' and the value should be a string in quotes.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a map of environment names to workspace names.

Terraform

environments = { "production": "[1]", "development": "[2]" }

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Aprod

Bdev

Cdefault

Dtest

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Mixing up workspace names for production and development.

This map links the environment names to their corresponding workspace names: 'production' to 'prod' and 'development' to 'dev'.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to conditionally set a variable based on the workspace.

Terraform

variable "db_name" {
  default = terraform.workspace == "[1]" ? "prod_db" : terraform.workspace == "[2]" ? "dev_db" : "[3]"
}

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Aprod

Bdev

Ctest_db

Ddefault_db

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using incorrect workspace names or default values.

This sets the database name to 'prod_db' if in 'prod' workspace, 'dev_db' if in 'dev' workspace, and 'default_db' otherwise.