HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate — Question 6

You have recently started a new job at a retailer as an engineer. As part of this new role, you have been tasked with evaluating multiple outages that occurred during peak shopping time during the holiday season. Your investigation found that the team is manually deploying new compute instances and configuring each compute instance manually. This has led to inconsistent configuration between each compute instance.
How would you solve this using infrastructure as code?

Answer options

• A. Implement a ticketing workflow that makes engineers submit a ticket before manually provisioning and configuring a resource
• B. Implement a checklist that engineers can follow when configuring compute instances
• C. Replace the compute instance type with a larger version to reduce the number of required deployments
• D. Implement a provisioning pipeline that deploys infrastructure configurations committed to your version control system following code reviews

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because implementing a provisioning pipeline automates the deployment process, ensuring consistent configurations across compute instances. Options A and B still rely on manual processes, which do not resolve the inconsistency issues. Option C does not address the underlying problem of configuration management and simply increases resource size without improving deployment practices.