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providers.tf

We keep a providers.tf file to define some basic variables for the AWS provider. We already defined region as a variable, so we are going to reuse it (${var/region}):

 provider "aws" { region = "${var.region}" }

To summarize, we have a number of .tf files in the directory here that all describe Amazon resources. They are named after the functions that can be recognized in them. Here is the list of files containing Terraform definitions:

• ansible.tf: Where we define our Ansible hosts to be
• instances.tf: Which defines the EC2 instances (in our case, 14)
• keys.tf: Where we define generated SSH key properties
• lb.tf: Where we define our classic load balancer (such as stickiness and health checks)
• networking.tf: Where we define the ...