10 Real Terraform Interview Questions (and Expert Answers!) – 2025 DevOps Guide

Want to nail your next Terraform interview?

In this video, I walk you through 10 real Terraform questions—the kind that actually come up in interviews—and break down how to answer them clearly, confidently, and with real-world DevOps context.

Whether you're prepping for an AI infrastructure gig, a DevOps engineer role, or cloud-native systems design, these tips will help you go beyond memorization and build true understanding.

🚀 Want to go beyond the video? Read the full Terraform Q&A breakdown in text form here: https://www.heyvaldemar.com/10-real-t...

Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:24 Terraform Interviews & DevOps Context
00:49 What Is Terraform & Why It Matters in 2025
01:29 How Terraform Talks to AWS, Azure, Kubernetes (Providers)
02:10 What Is terraform.tfstate & Why It’s Critical
02:57 Terraform Plan, Apply, Destroy, Refresh Explained
03:37 What Is Drift in Terraform & How To Detect It
04:33 Using Modules Without Creating a Mess
05:12 Terraform Variables vs Secrets (Best Practices)
05:54 What To Do When Terraform Apply Fails
06:32 How To Separate Dev, Staging, and Prod Environments
07:05 Shifting Security Left with Terraform (Policy as Code)
07:51 Outro

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