Miscellaneous Topics

A big congratulations to you for maintaining sheer focus and dedication to your Terraform certification journey – and yes, you have reached the final chapter of this book.

As you will have noticed, the core aspects of the Terraform configuration language were covered initially. This was then followed by learnings on enterprise offerings such as Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise that elevate the overall development experience for software developers. They also enable you to manage production infrastructure seamlessly with minimal overhead.

In this chapter, some topics relevant to the certification exam that could not be covered so far will be discussed. The individual topics are not very extensive, but they add value in special scenarios if the use case demands it.

The topics that will be covered in this chapter are the following:

• Input validations
• Preconditions and postconditions
• The check {} block
• Workspaces
• The dynamic...