Getting Started with Terraform - Second Edition

Summary

There's been a lot of information in this chapter, but we finally know all the possible ways to supply configuration to Terraform templates. Let's recap what you learned.

You learned how to use variables in Terraform: what kind of variables we can use and how we can provide them interactively, inline, with environment variables and variable files. We also discovered data sources: a relatively new concept in Terraform that allows us to get read-only data. While perhaps being still a bit too new, we found few applications for this concept. Then, you learned how to generate configuration files with the template_file data source and on top of that, explored multiple other providers, all simplifying our configuration efforts. In the end, ...