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Now

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let's take a look
at the configuration directory

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and the file naming conventions
used in Terraform.

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So far,

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we have been working
with a single configuration file

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called local.tf

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and this is within the directory
called terraform/local/file,

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which is our configuration directory.

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This directory is not limited
to one configuration file.

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We can create
another configuration file

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like this.

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The cat.tf

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is another configuration file
that makes use

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of the same
local_file resource.

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When applied,

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it will create a new file
called cat.txt.

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Terraform will consider

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any file with the .tf extension
within the configuration directory.

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Another common practice

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is to have
one single configuration file

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that contains all the resource blocks

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required
to provision the infrastructure.

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A single configuration file

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can have as many number

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of configuration blocks
that you need.

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A common naming convention
used for such a configuration file

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is to call it the main.tf.

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There are other configuration files

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that can be created
within the directory

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such as the variables.tf,

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outputs.tf,

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and providers.tf.

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We will talk more about these files
in the later sections of this course.

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Now
let's head over to the hands-on labs

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and explore working with providers.