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3. Understanding Terraform Programming Constructs

Navin Sabharwal1  , Sarvesh Pandey2 and Piyush Pandey3
(1)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
(2)
Noida, UP, India
(3)
New Delhi, India
 
This chapter covers Terraform’s programming components. Designing an infrastructure with Terraform code requires some basic understanding of the programming components. The following are the programming components covered in this chapter.

  • HCL

  • Resources

  • Providers

  • Input variables

  • Output values

  • Local values

  • Modules

  • Data sources

  • Backend configurations

  • Provisioners

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