Getting Started with Terraform - Second Edition

Resource Dependencies and Modules

Previously, we have managed only one resource with Terraform--a single EC2 instance. Obviously, the real infrastructure is much more complicated than a single server. The more resources you have, the more dependencies between them you have to handle. Also, when the number of resources grows, you will have a hard time managing them via a single huge template file.

In this chapter, we will learn about one of the most important features of Terraform: dependency graph. We will figure out how dependencies work and see it in practice by creating a complete virtual network via AWS VPC. Then, we will learn how to work around some limitations in dependency handling using some of the advanced Terraform features. Finally, ...