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Terraform configuration overview

Terraform configuration overview - Terraform Tutorial

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Terraform configuration overview

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- Okay, Terraform engineer. We're ready to get our hands dirty and work with a real configuration. I've taken the liberty of getting us started. You'll find a bare-bones, just enough to work configuration in the exercise files on the main branch. Open your editor of choice to view the files. Before we dig into the configuration, I'd like to draw your attention to the dot git ignore file. The dot git ignore file is a special file used to instruct git to ignore a set of files. You can list an explicit name, or use wild cards to exclude files with a particular extension, or other pattern. This dot git ignore file is set up to exclude files used by Terraform to do its work. Some of these files, like the dot tfrs file, may contain secrets we wouldn't want to check into a repository, especially if it were public. Feel free to use this dot git ignore file as a starting point for any Terraform configs you create in the…

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