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+# Local .terraform directories
+**/.terraform/*
+
+# .tfstate files
+*.tfstate
+*.tfstate.*
+
+# Crash log files
+crash.log
+crash.*.log
+
+# Exclude all .tfvars files, which are likely to contain sensitive data, such as
+# password, private keys, and other secrets. These should not be part of version 
+# control as they are data points which are potentially sensitive and subject 
+# to change depending on the environment.
+*.tfvars
+*.tfvars.json
+
+# Ignore override files as they are usually used to override resources locally and so
+# are not checked in
+override.tf
+override.tofu
+override.tf.json
+override.tofu.json
+*_override.tf
+*_override.tofu
+*_override.tf.json
+*_override.tofu.json
+
+# Ignore transient lock info files created by tofu apply
+.terraform.tfstate.lock.info
+
+# Include override files you do wish to add to version control using negated pattern
+# !example_override.tf
+# !example_override.tofu
+
+# Include tfplan files to ignore the plan output of command: tofu plan -out=tfplan
+# example: *tfplan*
+
+# Ignore CLI configuration files
+.terraformrc
+terraform.rc