HashiCorp Security Automation Certification VA-002-P HashiCorp Study Notes

The terraform taint command manually marks a Terraform-managed resource as tainted, forcing it to be destroyed and recreated on the next apply. This command will not modify infrastructure but does modify the state file in order to mark a resource as tainted. Once a resource is marked as tainted, the next plan will show that the resource will be destroyed and recreated. The next terraform apply will

implement this change.

The kv metadata command has subcommands for interacting with the metadata and versions for the versioned secrets (K/V Version 2 secrets engine) at the specified path.

The kv metadata delete command deletes all versions and metadata for the provided key.

Reference link:- https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/commands/kv/metadata

After authenticating, a client is issued a security token which is associated with a policy. That token is used to make a subsequent request to Vault, such as read, write, etc.

tostring is not a string function, it is a type conversion function. tostring converts its argument to a string value. https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/functions/tostring.html