What you'll learn

Managing infrastructure manually is error-prone and time-consuming, making it difficult to scale and maintain consistency across environments. In this course, Terraform State and Infrastructure Lifecycle for Terraform Associate (004), you'll gain the ability to effectively manage the state data and infrastructure managed by Terraform outside of the core workflow. First, you'll explore how state data is used in Terraform and where it can be stored. Next, you'll discover how to manage infrastructure drift to keep your managed resources in line with your desired configuration. Finally, you'll learn how to use logging and troubleshooting to debug thorny Terraform issues. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of Terraform state and the infrastructure lifecycle needed to manage your environments on day two and beyond.