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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

You're reading from   HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide Pass the Terraform Associate exam and manage IaC to scale across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565975
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ravi Mishra Ravi Mishra
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know IaC 3. Chapter 2: Terraform Installation Guide 4. Section 2: Core Concepts
5. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Terraform 6. Chapter 4: Deep Dive into Terraform 7. Chapter 5: Terraform CLI 8. Chapter 6: Terraform Workflows 9. Chapter 7: Terraform Modules 10. Section 3: Managing Infrastructure with Terraform
11. Chapter 8: Terraform Configuration Files 12. Chapter 9: Understanding Terraform Stacks 13. Chapter 10: Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise 14. Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary
15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding Terraform debugging

Terraform provides multiple options for debugging. You can get detailed logs of Terraform by enabling an environment variable named TF_LOG to any value. TF_LOG supports any of the following log levels: TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, WARN, or ERROR. By default, the TRACE log level is enabled, which is the recommended one by Terraform because it provides the most detailed logs.

If you want to save these logs to a certain location, then you can define TF_LOG_PATH in the environment variable of Terraform and point it to the respective location where you want to save your log file. Just remember that in order to enable the log, you need to use TF_LOG with any of the earlier described log levels, such as TRACE or DEBUG. To set the TF_LOG environment variable, you can use the following:

export TF_LOG=TRACE

Similarly, if we want to set TF_LOG_PATH, then we can do so in this way:

export TF_LOG_PATH=./terraform.log

Suppose while running the Terraform configuration...

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