Writing Terraform Templates

Installation

• Windows
  • Terminal Setup
  • Git For Windows
  • chocolatey or winget
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Terraform
  • AWS CLI
  • Azure CLI
• Mac
  • Homebrew
  • Git brew install git
  • Visual Studio Code brew install --cask visual-studio-code
  • Terraform brew tap hashicorp/tap && brew install hashicorp/tap/terraform
  • awscli brew install awscli
  • azure cli brew install azure-cli

Writing templates

• create a new folder
• open this in visual studio code (Ensure Terraform extension is installed)
• create a new file called as main.tf
• Terraform uses Hashicorp Configuration language, Resources, Providers are Blocks

<block-type> <name> .. {

}

• Provider Block

provider <name> {
    arg1 = value
    ..
    ..
    argn = value
}

• Resource Block

resource <type> <name> {
    arg1 = value
    ..
    ..
    argn = value
}

• When we pass arguments terraform has the following data types

Configuring terraform to work with AWS

Configuring terraform to work with Azure