You have decided to create a new Terraform workspace to deploy a development environment.
What is different about this workspace?
You have decided to create a new Terraform workspace to deploy a development environment.
What is different about this workspace?
When you create a new Terraform workspace, it has its own state file. This allows for the management of multiple environments with separate configurations without interference, maintaining isolation of state data for each environment. This is the primary difference associated with creating a new workspace.
A. It has its own state file When you create a new Terraform workspace, it has its own separate state file. This allows you to manage and deploy multiple environments with different configurations without interfering with each other. Each workspace’s state file is isolated from the others, ensuring that changes in one environment don’t affect the resources in another environment. While it is possible for different workspaces to use different terraform.tfvars files, branches of code, or even different backends, these differences are not inherently tied to the creation of a new workspace. These variations would depend on how you choose to structure and manage your Terraform configurations for different environments.
A. It has its own state file
A. It has its own state file When you create a new Terraform workspace, it will have its own state file. This separation of state files allows you to manage multiple environments, such as development, staging, and production, without their resources and configurations conflicting with each other. Each workspace will maintain its own state, so you can apply changes to one environment without affecting the others. The other options mentioned (B, C, and D) are not inherently different in a new workspace, but can be configured as needed for the specific environment.
A. It has its own state file When you create a new Terraform workspace, it gets its own state file. Terraform workspaces are designed to manage multiple separate instances of your infrastructure with the same configuration. Each workspace has its own separate state file to track the resources and their states within that specific environment (e.g., development, staging, or production).
You can use workspaces for different environments, which would require different vars