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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
    }
    
    # AWS Example
    resource "aws_instance" "ec2demo" { # BLOCK
      ami           = "ami-04d29b6f966df1537" # Argument
      instance_type = var.instance_type # Argument with value as expression (Variable value replaced from varibales.tf
    }
    

Step-03: Understand about Arguments, Attributes and 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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