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Exploring Terraform
In this chapter, we continue our exploration of Terraform. We start by explaining the Terraform state and how Terraform uses it to plan which actions it needs to take. We show various commands on how to investigate the current state, and what to watch out for. We then show how teams can collaborate by using the backend state.
We will look at meta-arguments, which are particular Terraform constructs, to enable you to write efficient Terraform code.
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:
- Understanding the Terraform state
- Using the backend state
- Understanding Terraform meta-arguments
- Using the self_link attribute
Technical requirements
We assume you now have a local environment with Terraform and ...
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