Next Steps

You practiced

• IaC ideas and Terraform install
• Providers, resources, variables, and outputs
• State, plan, apply, and destroy
• fmt/validate, modules, workspaces, remote state awareness

Safe practice loop

Small module → plan → apply → verify → destroy. Prefer free local providers or tightly scoped cloud free tiers.

Where to go next

• A first cloud provider with least-privilege credentials
• Data sources to look up existing resources
• for_each / count for repeated objects
• Policy as code and CI plans on pull requests
• Terraform Cloud or another remote backend with locking

Read every plan

The plan is your safety net. If you do not understand a destroy or replace, do not apply it.