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CompTIA Linux+ XK0-006 (V8) Practice Question

In a mixed automation workflow, you provision infrastructure with OpenTofu and occasionally run one-off Ansible ad-hoc commands such as:

ansible webservers -m yum -a 'name=httpd state=latest'

After accidentally deleting the file terraform.tfstate, OpenTofu is unable to calculate a new plan, but the Ansible command still executes successfully. What fundamental difference in the way the two tools manage state explains this behavior?

  • OpenTofu keeps a persistent state file to record the resources it manages, whereas Ansible ad-hoc commands evaluate the hosts on each run and do not maintain a separate state file.

  • Deleting terraform.tfstate removed the SSH keys required by OpenTofu, whereas Ansible uses HTTPS instead of SSH and therefore continued to work.

  • Both tools rely on state files, but OpenTofu stores its state remotely by default and Ansible locally, so only OpenTofu was affected when the local file was removed.

  • OpenTofu discards resource metadata after every apply, while Ansible stores host state in /var/lib/ansible/state.json and reloads it on the next run.

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-006 (V8)
Automation, Orchestration, and Scripting
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