The VPC module creates our private network inside AWS; we do not want to or need to expose the NATS server to the outside world, so we can create a private network that only allows the resources attached to that network to access it, as shown in the following code:
module "vpc" {
source = "./vpc"
namespace = "bog-chapter11"
}
The source attribute is the location of the module; Terraform supports the following sources:
- Local file paths
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Generic Git and Mercurial repositories
- HTTP URLs
- S3 buckets
Following the source attribute, we can configure custom attributes, which correspond to the variables in the module. Variables are required placeholders for a module; when they are not present, Terraform complains when ...
