Chapter 2: Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform

1. The language used by Terraform is HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL).
2. Terraform's role is an Infrastructure as Code tool.
3. No. Terraform is not a scripting tool.
4. The command that allows you to display the installed version is versionterraform version.
5. The name of the Azure object that connects Terraform to Azure is the Azure service principal.
6. The three main orders of Terraform are terraform init, terraform plan, and terraform apply.
7. The Terraform command that allows us to destroy resources is terraform destroy.
8. We add the --auto-approve option to the terraform apply command.
9. The purpose of the tfstate file is to keep the resources and their properties throughout the execution of Terraform.
10. No, it is not a good practice to leave tfstate locally; it must be stored in a protected remote backend.

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