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1. Declarative HCL & Provider Architecture

HashiCorp Configuration Language and cloud provisioning.

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Terraform provisions cloud infrastructure declaratively using HCL. Providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes) translate declarations into cloud API requests.

hcl
resource "aws_s3_bucket" "vault" {
  bucket = "protocol-assets-bucket"
  tags = {
    Environment = "Production"
  }
}

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1. What paradigm does Terraform use for infrastructure configuration?
Declarative: describes the desired end state, and Terraform plans the steps to achieve itImperative bash scriptingCompiled C++ bytecodeManual console clicks

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