350-601 Automation Practice Question
A DevOps team wants to apply Infrastructure as Code principles to manage their data center network. Which tool is best suited for declaratively managing ACI configurations using Terraform?
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Why each option matters
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Terraform with terraform-provider-aci
Terraform uses the terraform-provider-aci to declaratively manage ACI objects like tenants, APs, EPGs, etc.
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Cobra SDK
Why it's wrong here
Cobra SDK is a Python SDK for ACI, not a declarative provisioning tool.
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Terraform with terraform-provider-aci
Why this is correct
Correct: Terraform's ACI provider enables declarative management.
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Python acitoolkit
Why it's wrong here
acitoolkit is a Python library, not a declarative IaC tool.
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Ansible with cisco.nxos collection
Why it's wrong here
Ansible is imperative and not Terraform.
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