HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

Chapter 6: Terraform Workflows

In the previous chapter, we discussed the Terraform command-line interface (CLI) and saw some outputs from Terraform commands.

In this chapter, we will take a look at a core workflow of the Terraform tool, which involves creating a Terraform configuration file (write), previewing the changes (plan), then finally committing those changes to the target environment (apply). Once we are done with the creation of the resources, we might be required to get rid of infrastructures (destroy). In a nutshell, we are planning to cover Terraform core workflows, which mainly consist of terraform init, terraform plan, terraform apply, and terraform destroy operations, and the respective subcommands and their outputs. Understanding ...