How Terraform uses and manages state — TA-004 Study Guide

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Included in this chapter:

What state is and what it records
State, refresh, and the attribute cache
Protecting state: secrets and locking
Exam-pattern recognition

Cheat sheet

Cheat sheet

State maps configuration to real objects
Default local state is terraform.tfstate JSON
State is updated after apply
State records metadata and dependencies
State caches resource attributes
-refresh=false uses cached state
State is plaintext and includes secrets
sensitive does not remove values from state
State locking is automatic

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350-901 Designing, Deploying and Managing Network Automation Systems

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