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TERRAFORM-ASSOCIATE-004 · Question #114
You have multiple team members collaborating on infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, and want to apply formatting standards for readability. How can you format Terraform HCL (HashiCorp Config
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Submitted by olafpl· Apr 18, 2026Use Terraform CLI
Question
You have multiple team members collaborating on infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, and want to apply formatting standards for readability. How can you format Terraform HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) code according to standard Terraform style convention?
Options
- ARun the terraform fmt command during the code linting phase of your CI/CD process
- BDesignate one person in each team to review and format everyone's code
- CManually apply two spaces indentation and align equal sign "=" characters in every Terraform file
- DWrite a shell script to transform Terraform files using tools such as AWK, Python, and sed
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#terraform fmt#HCL formatting#Code standards#Terraform CLI