Exam Terraform Associate topic 1 question 22 discussion

The answer is False. The terraform init command does not initialize a sample main.tf file in the current directory. It initializes the working directory by downloading and installing provider plugins, downloading modules, and creating a Terraform state file. If you do not have a main.tf file in your working directory, Terraform will create one for you. However, the file will be empty. You will need to add your Terraform configuration to the main.tf file. You can find more information about the terraform init command in the Terraform documentation: https://www.terraform.io/docs/cli/commands/init.html

Answer is A. See below points. 1. Question does not ask if it creates main.tf or not. it asks wheather main.tf initializes or not. 2. Ran terraform init in empty directory and it warns "The directory has no Terraform configuration files." it means it tries to find configuration file to initialize. 3. configuration file can be of any name with .tf extension. 4. ran command with main.tf in directory with extra curly braces and initialization fails. because it try to initialize main.tf 5. rename main.tf with sample.tf with extra curly braces and it still gives same error. 6. Official documentation says "command initializes a working directory containing Terraform configuration files". main.tf is a configuration file. Again, question never says it creates it. question clearly asks if main.tf is initialized. it means main.tf is already exists w.r.t. this question Reference: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/init Please vote for this correct answer

main.tf is an option file. it might not exist. terraform init means to download all basic infrastructures from the configuration file. B false.

Even if the answer is somehow A, I'm voting B on principle.

The correct answer is B. False. The terraform init command in Terraform is used to initialize a Terraform configuration in the current directory. It downloads the necessary provider plugins and sets up the backend configuration. However, terraform init does not create a sample main.tf file in the current directory. The main.tf file is the main configuration file in Terraform where you define your infrastructure resources and their configurations. It is typically created manually by the user and contains the desired state of the infrastructure. When you run terraform init, it looks for an existing main.tf file in the current directory to load the configuration. If the main.tf file does not exist, Terraform will not create it automatically.

A lot of people are taking this question as init command is creating a main.tf. The context in the question is - if there was a sample main.tf in current folder then init would initialize the file. I vote for A.

It absolutely does not generate a main.tf; B is the correct answer

A Because terraform initialize *a sample main.tf* it means that we can have a multiple types of files like *.tf So A is a good answer

B. False

B is correct. It initializes versions and providers irrespective of name of the tf files.

A is correct 100% terraform init initializes any file with the extension ".tf" in the pwd. it says "a" sample main.tf, it didn't say "the" sample main.tf. Please note the difference.

B. False. The terraform init command initializes a new or existing Terraform working directory by downloading and installing any necessary plugins and modules specified in the configuration. It does not create a main.tf file or any other configuration file in the current directory. You will need to create a main.tf file (or another configuration file with a different name) manually and write the necessary configuration code for your infrastructure. Once you have done so, you can run terraform init to prepare the working directory for use with Terraform.

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B for sure

By default, terraform init assumes that the working directory already contains a configuration and will attempt to initialize that configuration.

The terraform init command initializes a new or existing Terraform working directory by downloading and installing any required providers and modules, as well as setting up the backend. It does not create a sample main.tf file in the current directory. The main.tf file is a configuration file where you define the resources that you want to create using Terraform. It needs to be created manually by the user.

The terraform init command initializes a new or existing Terraform working directory by downloading and installing any required providers and modules, as well as setting up the backend. It does not create a sample main.tf file in the current directory. The main.tf file is a configuration file where you define the resources that you want to create using Terraform. It needs to be created manually by the user.