Hashicorp Terraform Associate Cert Questions Question and Answers
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Hashicorp Terraform Associate
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Hashicorp Terraform Associate
What is Infrastructure as Code?
~Ans~ You write and execute the code to define, deploy, update, and destroy your
infrastructure
What are the benefits of IaC?
~Ans~ a. Automation -We can bring up the servers with one script and scale up
and down based on our load with the same script.
b. Re...
Hashicorp Terraform Associate Cert
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What is Infrastructure as Code?
~Ans~ You write and execute the code to define, deploy, update, and destroy your
infrastructure
What are the benefits of IaC?
~Ans~ a. Automation -We can bring up the servers with one script and scale up
and down based on our load with the same script.
b. Reusability of the code - We can reuse the same code
c. Versioning - We can check it into version control and we get versioning. Now we
can see an incremental history of who changed what, how is our infrastructure
actually defined at any given point of time, and we have this transparency of
documentation
IaC makes changes idempotent, consistent, repeatable, and predictable.
How using IaC make it easy to provision infrastructure?
~Ans~ IaC makes it easy to provision and apply infrastructure configurations,
saving time. It standardizes workflows across different infrastructure providers (e.g.,
VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) by using a common syntax across all of them.
What is Ideompodent in terms of IaC?
~Ans~ The idempotent characteristic provided by IaC tools ensures that, even if
the same code is applied multiple times, the result remains the same.
What are Day 0 and Day 1 activities?
~Ans~ IaC can be applied throughout the lifecycle, both on the initial build, as well
as throughout the life of the infrastructure. Commonly, these are referred to as Day 0
and Day 1 activities.
"Day 0" code provisions and configures your initial infrastructure.
"Day 1" refers to OS and application configurations you apply after you've initially
built your infrastructure.
What are the advantages of Terraform?
~Ans~ Platform Agnostic
State Management
Operator Confidence
Where do you describe all the components or your entire datacenter so that
Terraform provision those?
~Ans~ Configuration files ends with *.tf
, How can Terraform build infrastructure so efficiently?
~Ans~ Terraform builds a graph of all your resources, and parallelizes the creation
and modification of any non-dependent resources. Because of this, Terraform builds
infrastructure as efficiently as possible, and operators get insight into dependencies
in their infrastructure.
What is multi-cloud deployment?
~Ans~ Provisioning your infrastructure into multiple cloud providers to increase
fault-tolerance of your applications.
How multi-cloud deployment is useful?
~Ans~ By using only a single region or cloud provider, fault tolerance is limited by
the availability of that provider.
Having a multi-cloud deployment allows for more graceful recovery of the loss of a
region or entire provider.
What is cloud-agnostic in terms of provisioning tools?
~Ans~ cloud-agnostic and allows a single configuration to be used to manage
multiple providers, and to even handle cross-cloud dependencies.
What is the use of terraform being cloud-agnostic?
~Ans~ It simplifies management and orchestration, helping operators build large-
scale multi-cloud infrastructures.
What is the Terraform State?
~Ans~ Every time you run Terraform, it records information about what
infrastructure it created in a Terraform state file.
By default, when you run Terraform in the folder /some/folder, Terraform creates the
file /some/folder/terraform.tfstate.
This file contains a custom JSON format that records a mapping from the Terraform
resources in your configuration files to the representation of those resources in the
real world.
What is the purpose of the Terraform State?
~Ans~ Mapping to the Real World - Terraform requires some sort of database to
map Terraform config to the real world because you can't find the same functionality
in every cloud provider. You need to have some kind of mechanism to be cloud-
agnostic
Metadata - Terraform must also track metadata such as resource dependencies,
pointer to the provider configuration that was most recently used with the resource in
situations where multiple aliased providers are present.
Performance - When running a terraform plan, Terraform must know the current
state of resources in order to effectively determine the changes that it needs to make
to reach your desired configuration.
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