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Terraform Foundations Lab

Create a maintainable Terraform workflow covering configuration, state, planning, deployment and teardown.

Objective: Produce safe infrastructure-as-code with predictable review and lifecycle controls.

Practical guidance

Objectives and preparation

01

Install and verify the approved Terraform version

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02

Define provider authentication and remote-state expectations

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03

Create naming, tagging and repository standards

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Guided implementation

01

Write formatted configuration using variables and outputs

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02

Run init, validate and plan before deployment

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03

Apply the reviewed plan and record resulting resources

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Validation, troubleshooting and cleanup

01

Compare deployed state with intended configuration

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02

Diagnose provider, state and dependency failures

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03

Destroy lab resources and protect retained state evidence

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