diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c32c404..1f2931b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,53 +1,43 @@
-## TERRAFORM
+### Terraform
+# Local .terraform directories
+**/.terraform/*
 
-# Compiled files
+# .tfstate files
 *.tfstate
-*.tfstate.backup
-*.tfstate.lock.info
+*.tfstate.*
 
-# logs
-*.log
+# Crash log files
+crash.log
+crash.*.log
 
-# Directories
-.terraform/
-.vagrant/
+# 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
 
-# SSH Keys
-*.pem
+# Ignore override files as they are usually used to override resources locally and so
+# are not checked in
+override.tf
+override.tf.json
+*_override.tf
+*_override.tf.json
 
-# Backup files
-*.bak
+# Include override files you do wish to add to version control using negated pattern
+!example_override.tf
 
-# Ignored Terraform files
-*gitignore*.tf
+# Include tfplan files to ignore the plan output of command: terraform plan -out=tfplan
+# example: *tfplan*
 
-# Ignore Mac .DS_Store files
-.DS_Store
+# Ignore CLI configuration files
+.terraformrc
+terraform.rc
 
-# Ignored vscode files
-.vscode/
-
-# Ignore Any Generated JSON Files
-operations/automation-script/apply.json
-operations/automation-script/configversion.json
-operations/automation-script/run.template.json
-operations/automation-script/run.json
-operations/automation-script/variable.template.json
-operations/automation-script/variable.json
-operations/automation-script/workspace.template.json
-operations/automation-script/workspace.json
-operations/sentinel-policies-scripts/create-policy.template.json
-operations/sentinel-policies-scripts/create-policy.json
-operations/variable-scripts/variable.template.json
-operations/variable-scripts/variable.json
-
-# Sentinel runtime directory
-.sentinel
-
-
-### ANSIBLE
+### Ansible
 *.retry
 
+
 ### OTHER
 *.env
 .env