Testing

Terraform testing involves validating the infrastructure-as-code templates and configurations to ensure the provisioning and management of cloud resources function correctly

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There are two types of testing IaC code: manual and automated. The manual method involves simply deploying infrastructure using your code into a sandbox environment and running manual tests against what you have deployed to check your code does what you want. This could be using CURL to validate web access, A SQL client to test access to a database, or remoting into a server and running local tests.

The automated method is by nature of it being automatic far more complicated. This document will focus into automated testing.