VA-002-P Exam Dumps - HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate

The .gitignore file should be configured to ignore Terraform files that either contain sensitive data or aren't required to save.

The terraform.tfstate file contains the terraform state of a specific environment and doesn't need to be preserved in a repo. The terraform.tfvars file may contain sensitive data, such as passwords or IP addresses of an environment that you may not want to share with others.

Terraform is available for macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows

https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html

Namespaces are isolated environments that functionally exist as "Vaults within a Vault." They have separate login paths and support creating and managing data isolated to their namespace. This data includes the following:

- Secret Engines

- Auth Methods

- Policies

- Identities (Entities, Groups)

- Tokens

Reference link:- https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/enterprise/namespaces

Anyone can develop and distribute their own Terraform providers. (See Writing Custom Providers for more about provider development.) These third-party providers must be manually installed, since terraform init cannot automatically download them.

https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/providers.html#third-party-plugins

Providers are plugins released on a separate rhythm from Terraform itself, and so they have their own version numbers. For production use, you should constrain the acceptable provider version via configuration. This helps to ensure that new versions with potentially breaking changes will not be automatically installed by terraform init in the future.

Replication is not available in open-source versions of Vault. It is an enterprise feature.

The terraform console command provides an interactive console for evaluating expressions.

https://www.terraform.io/docs/commands/console.html