Terraform Contd
Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) for Terraform
- For Specification Refer Here
- Provider Refer Here
- The terraform block helps in configuring the provider with version of the provider from registry Refer Here
- Specify which version of terraform you should be using use required_version. To specify constraints Refer Here
- Refer Here for changes
Parametrizing Terraform
Input Variables
- Refer Here for input variables official docs
- For inputs terraform supports the following types
- number
- string
- boolean
- list(
) - set(
) - map(
) - object({
= , … }) - tuple([
, …])
- To pass variables while executing commands we have two options
- -var
- -var-file
- using -var Refer Here
terraform apply -var "region=ap-south-2" -var "ntier-vpc-range=10.10.0.0/16"
- Refer Here for the changes to use variables
- using variable definitions Refer Here, example
terraform apply -var-file values.tfvars - Refer Here for the changes in azure terraform template
