Terraform Configuration Language Syntax
Step-01: Introduction¶
- Understand Terraform Language Basics
- Understand Blocks
- Understand Arguments, Attributes & Meta-Arguments
- Understand Identifiers
- Understand Comments
Step-02: Terraform Configuration Language Syntax¶
- Understand Blocks
- Understand Arguments
- Understand Identifiers
- Understand Comments
- Terraform Configuration
- Terraform Configuration Syntax
# Template <BLOCK TYPE> "<BLOCK LABEL>" "<BLOCK LABEL>" { # Block body <IDENTIFIER> = <EXPRESSION> # Argument } # Azure Example # Create a resource group resource "azurerm_resource_group" "myrg" { # Resource BLOCK name = "myrg-1" # Argument location = "East US" # Argument } # Create Virtual Network resource "azurerm_virtual_network" "myvnet" { # Resource BLOCK name = "myvnet-1" # Argument address_space = ["10.0.0.0/16"] location = azurerm_resource_group.myrg.location # Argument with value as expression resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.myrg.name # Argument with value as expression }
Step-03: Understand about Arguments, Attributes and Meta-Arguments.¶
- Arguments can be
requiredoroptional - Attribues format looks like
resource_type.resource_name.attribute_name - Meta-Arguments change a resource type's behavior (Example: count, for_each)
- Additional Reference
- Resource: Azure Resource Group
- Resource: Azure Resource Group Argument Reference
- Resource: Azure Resource Group Attribute Reference
- Resource: Meta-Arguments
Step-04: Understand about Terraform Top-Level Blocks¶
- Discuss about Terraform Top-Level blocks
- Terraform Settings Block
- Provider Block
- Resource Block
- Input Variables Block
- Output Values Block
- Local Values Block
- Data Sources Block
- Modules Block
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