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.¶
- 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: AWS Instance
- Resource: AWS Instance Argument Reference
- Resource: AWS Instance 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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