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# [Terraform Tutorial for Beginners: Infrastructure as Code](https://sherdil-elearning.hashnode.dev/terraform-tutorial-beginners-iac?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

What Terraform is (and where OpenTofu fits), core concepts, a hands-on AWS walkthrough from S3 bucket to full VPC + EC2, best practices, and real Terraform salary data for Pakistan.

Oct 16 · 6 min read · sherdil-elearning.hashnode.dev  
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[Oct 17](https://hashnode.com/posts/terraform-tutorial-beginners-iac/6ad1d44965abf3f33651c5a3/comment/6ad3260233a37c3b1cecaabf)

Including the "Is state storage safe by default?" question in the FAQ is a good call for beginners. The local terraform.tfstate file can hold secrets in plain text, and it's one of the first things people accidentally commit to Git. Moving to a remote backend with locking early, for example S3 with versioning turned on, saves a lot of pain once a second person starts running apply. The OpenTofu note is helpful too, since a lot of newer tutorials skip the licensing history entirely.