HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003) Exam Guide

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Terraform Backends and Resource Management

Think of a scenario where you are part of a large enterprise-level DevOps team, primarily dealing with the provision of infrastructure resources from different cloud providers for multiple project teams. Your team maintains the Terraform configuration scripts and is responsible for end-to-end activities, such as state management and adding/updating resource attributes. There could be situations where you and your colleagues might have to collaborate and work on the same ticket, with the same set of configuration scripts.

This also means that everyone working on the same configuration needs to refer to the same state file. Terraform creates the state file and stores it locally with the terraform.tfstate ...