With terraform we can use variables for example an integer which is defined as a number or a string or a list of strings and then we can reference these variables further down in the code in order to reuse them you can also output variables to the screen and we could also ask the customer to input interactively variable values into the console

``` In this session

• init plan apply destroy
• state file

• variables

• terraform pattern consistent

• resource keyword
• resource identifier "aws_vpc"
• our name "mypc"

• in curly braces the parametesrs like cidr_block = "10.0.0.0/16"

• terraform init

• i's like mvn install
• Download the plugins to use aws
• We can run this command after created main.tf

• pull down modules

• terraform plan

• will show what's its going to do

• checks state

  • Get developer style diff before commit
  • What already created which diff
  • don't want to loose this state file

• terraform apply

• showing the diff
• click yes to continue

• resources created in aws!

• terraform destroy

• to delete all reources

• confirm

• state file terraform.tfstate

• we can see locally all that we created with terraform!
• this file will have ALL resources created by terraform
• visibility!
• we want this file to get missing
• json format
• .bak
• track changes we made
• used for diff

Variables

• define variables
• folder variables
• default is like the value
• we have type and then default for default value

• main.tf create file in that folder ```json variable "vpcname" { type = string (or number boolean list(string) with values ["val1", "val2"] to access 1 [0]) default = "myvpc" }

  variable "mymap" { type = map default = { key1 = "value1" key2 = "value2" } }

  variable "mytuple" { type tuple([string, number, string]) default = ["mystr1", 45, "mystr2"] }

  variable "myobject" { type = object({name = string, port = number}) default { name = "myval1" default = "232" } } ``` - cidr_range would get used multiple times so just put it in var

• use variables

• var.myvarname can also be done with string interpolation
• var.mylist[0]

• var.mymap["Key1"]

• interactive input variables json variable "inputname" { type = string description = "please enter value for input name" }

next use this - var.inputname as usuall - terraform plan will now ask to input the input vars values

Outputs

json output "myoutput" { value = aws\_vpc.myvpc.id }

so nw we can print the dynamic id we get when we run terraform.

run terraform plan will not print the id as it's created only after the apply is run and resources actually run.

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