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2. The CLI workflow: init, plan, apply, destroy

Hands-on with the core loop. First real apply against the lab.

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🧪 Hands-on lab Easy · 120 XP · 20min

Goal

Write Terraform HCL in main.tf that creates an S3 bucket named certland-labs-tf with versioning enabled, then run terraform init && terraform apply -auto-approve.

Requirements

  • An aws_s3_bucket resource with bucket = certland-labs-tf
  • Versioning enabled (via aws_s3_bucket_versioning, status Enabled)

You do not need to configure the provider endpoint — the workspace already points the AWS provider at the lab environment. Just write pure HCL as you would against real AWS.

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