rfitzhugh/terraform-associate

resources for the Terraform Associate certification exam

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Add Objective 7: Implement and maintain state

Add a chapter covering the following:

• Describe default local backend
• Outline state locking
• Handle backend authentication methods
• Describe remote state storage mechanisms and supported standard backends
• Describe effect of Terraform refresh on state
• Describe backend block in configuration and best practices for partial configurations
• Understand secret management in state files

Add Objective 5: Interact with Terraform modules

Add chapter covering the following:

• Contrast module source options
• Interact with module inputs and outputs
• Describe variable scope within modules/child modules
• Discover modules from the public Terraform Module Registry
• Defining module version

Add Additional Resources

Use this issue as a log to track and add more community resources.

Add code samples

• Either add code samples in /module directory or move out of this repo and link.
• Write instructions for using code
• Write instructions for CLI commands using code

Go public

Get this repo ready for primetime:

• Rename?
• Write blog post
• Make repo public

Open Questions:

• Use GitBook or GitHub Pages?

Update for 003 exam

Add Objective 8: Read, generate, and modify configuration

Add chapter covering the following:

• Demonstrate use of variables and outputs
• Describe secure secret injection best practice
• Understand the use of collection and structural types
• Create and differentiate resource and data configuration
• Use resource addressing and resource parameters to connect resources together
• Use Terraform built-in functions to write configuration
• Configure resource using a dynamic block
• Describe built-in dependency management (order of execution based)