A senior admin accidentally deleted some of your cloud instances. What will Terraform do when you run terraform apply?

Question

Options

• ATear down the entire workspace's infrastructure and rebuild it.
• BBuild a completely brand new set of infrastructure.
• CRebuild only the instances that were deleted.
• DStop and generate an error message about the missing instances.

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  6% (2)
• C
  79% (26)
• D
  12% (4)

Explanation

Terraform detects infrastructure drift by comparing the state file with the actual infrastructure. When an instance is manually deleted, Terraform sees it as missing and marks it for recreation. Running terraform apply will only recreate the missing instances while leaving the rest of the infrastructure unchanged. Explanation of incorrect answers: A (Tear down everything and rebuild) - Incorrect. Terraform does not destroy existing infrastructure unless explicitly told to. B (Build a completely new set of infrastructure) - Incorrect. Terraform does not create duplicates unless configuration changes. D (Stop and error out) - Incorrect. Terraform does not fail; it rebuilds missing resources

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