Terraform Interview Questions (2025) For Experienced Professionals
In this post we will look at Terraform Interview questions. Examples are provided with explanation.
- What is Terraform?
- What are the main features of Terraform?
- What are the best practices when using Terraform?
- How to create a SSH in Terraform when using AWS?
- How to upgrade terraform to a specific version?
- How to set up a lambda function triggered by a scheduled event source when using Terraform?
- How to make use of AND/OR operators in Terraform?
- How to attach AWS managed policies to a role for Terraform?
- How to index all attributes when using DynamoDB with Terraform?
What is Terraform?
Terraform is a product developed by Hashi Corp. Hashi Corp is a company with a strong focus on DevOps tools, such as console, a highly available distributed key-value storage or vagrant. It is a tool to reproduce development environments using the same provisioners as production. Terraform, as the name hints, allows you to create infrastructure and cloud data centers in a declarative way, keeping track of what was created where. It allows you to apply changes to the infrastructure from the code perspective. Your infrastructure is described as the code and as such it can follow its life cycle. The first thing we need to do is download and install terraform.Terraform is in fact a command line tool, it runs in Windows Powershell, Windows Command Line Processor, any Unix shell like Bash or C shell, or whatever your preference is.
What are the main features of Terraform?
- Implement multi-cloud deployment environment with minimal effort
- Using Terraform allows users to automate the entire infrastructure management
- It is a declarative infrastructure as code tool
- Development costs are comparitively low
- Less provision time
What are the best practices when using Terraform?
- We highly recommend storing the Terraform code for each of your environments (e.g. stage, prod, qa) in separate sets of templates
- Create infrastructure in two modules - infrastructure-modules and infrastructure-live
- Create modules based on logical collections of various resources