Workspaces and remote state in Terraform - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to select the current Terraform workspace.

Terraform

terraform.workspace == "[1]"

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Adev

Bmain

Cprod

Ddefault

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Common Mistakes

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

Confusing workspace names with environment names.

The default workspace in Terraform is named default. Using terraform.workspace returns the current workspace name.

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medium

Complete the code to configure a remote backend with an S3 bucket named 'my-terraform-state'.

Terraform

backend "s3" {
  bucket = "[1]"
  key    = "state.tfstate"
  region = "us-east-1"
}

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Aterraform-state-bucket

Bstate-bucket

Cmy-terraform-state

Dterraform-bucket

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Common Mistakes

Using a generic bucket name instead of the specified one.

Confusing the bucket name with the key or region.

The bucket attribute specifies the S3 bucket name where Terraform stores the remote state. Here, it should be my-terraform-state.

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hard

Fix the error in the backend configuration by completing the missing attribute for DynamoDB table used for state locking.

Terraform

backend "s3" {
  bucket         = "my-terraform-state"
  key            = "state.tfstate"
  region         = "us-east-1"
  dynamodb_table = "[1]"
}

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Aterraform-locks

Bstate-locks

Cterraform-state-lock

Dlocks-table

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Common Mistakes

Using incorrect or generic table names.

Omitting the locking table causing concurrency issues.

The dynamodb_table attribute specifies the DynamoDB table used for state locking. The correct table name here is terraform-locks.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a workspace and select it using Terraform CLI commands.

Terraform

terraform workspace [1] myworkspace
terraform workspace [2] myworkspace

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Aworkspace

Bselect

Cnew

Dinit

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Common Mistakes

Using 'init' instead of 'new' to make a workspace.

Selecting a workspace before creating it.

To create a new workspace, use terraform workspace new. To switch to it, use terraform workspace select.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to configure a remote backend with S3 bucket, DynamoDB table for locking, and enable encryption.

Terraform

backend "s3" {
  bucket         = "[1]"
  key            = "terraform.tfstate"
  region         = "us-west-2"
  dynamodb_table = "[2]"
  encrypt        = [3]
}

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Amy-remote-state

Bterraform-lock-table

Ctrue

Dfalse

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Common Mistakes

Setting encrypt to false or omitting it.

Using wrong bucket or table names.

The bucket is my-remote-state, the dynamodb_table is terraform-lock-table, and encrypt should be set to true to enable encryption.