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HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003) Exam Guide

You're reading from   HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003) Exam Guide Prepare to pass the Terraform Associate exam on your first attempt

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618844
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manjunath H. Gowda Manjunath H. Gowda
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Chandra Mohan Dhanasekaran Chandra Mohan Dhanasekaran
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Preface 1. Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Concepts 2. Why Do We Need Terraform? FREE CHAPTER 3. Basics of Terraform and Core Workflow 4. Terraform Commands and State Management 5. Terraform Modules 6. Terraform Backends and Resource Management 7. Debugging and Troubleshooting Terraform 8. Terraform Functions 9. Understanding HCP Terraform’s Capabilities 10. Miscellaneous Topics 11. Accessing the Online Practice Resources 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Module Structure

There is no mandatory structure for modules. However, HashiCorp recommends following their standard module structure, since Terraform tools are designed to understand this structure in order to generate documentation and index modules when you upload modules to the Terraform Registry.

HashiCorp adds a root module as the mandatory component of the module structure. However, the focus here is mostly on the child module’s structure. Hence, you will not see the root module as one of the requirements in the structure given here.

These are the key files that make up a module:

  • main.tf: This is the main configuration file that defines the resources that need to be launched.
  • variables.tf: Hardcoding the configuration value in the module’s code makes it difficult to reuse it. You parameterize (define the variable but pass the value of the variable during execution) the arguments of the resources as variables and pass the value of these variables...
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