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Manual exploration leads to good Terraform code

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Manual exploration leads to good Terraform code

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- [Instructor] Jumping straight into automation with no thought or planning is a quick road to frustration. The areas I'm going to cover in this particular video are exercises that I still do today even after using Terraform for many, many years. What we're going to do is we're going to explore, we're going to create a few resources manually, and learn the ins and outs of how they work. And then we're going to explore those same resources on the provider's documentation, so we can understand how things are interconnected. And that's going to help us in the future as we start building some workflows. Let's get going. Let's go ahead and create a VPC now. So one thing you'll notice as you start going through the provider documentation, is some attributes are required and some attributes are optional, and this is important to take note of. So let's just say that I try and create this VPC without putting in any values. Nope,…

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