Terraform Variables

Terraform allows you to define variables to parameterize your infrastructure code and make it more reusable and configurable. Variables in Terraform are quite important, as you need to hold values of names of instances, configs, etc.

We can create a variables.tf file which will hold all the variables.

variable "filename" {
  default = "/home/user/terraform/day63/demo-var.txt"
}
variable "content" {
  default = "Hey, This is Shreya. This is a testing of variable"
}

These variables can be accessed by the var object in main.tf

Create a local file using Terraform

Create a main.tf and variable.tf file.
Run the below command to apply terraform configuration and then the file is created by using a variable.
```
  terraform init
  terraform plan
  terraform apply
```

Data Types in Terraform

Use terraform to demonstrate usage of List, Set and Object datatypes

In Terraform, variables and resource attributes can have different data types. Here are the commonly used data types in Terraform.

String: Represents a sequence of characters. Strings are enclosed in double quotes ("") or single quotes ('').

For example: "us-west-2".
Number: Represents numerical values. Numbers can be integers or floating-point values.

For example: 42, 3.14.
Bool: Represents boolean values, which can be either true or false.
List: Represents an ordered collection of values. Lists are enclosed in square brackets ([]). Each element in the list can be of any data type.

For example: ["value1", "value2", "value3"].
Map: Represents a collection of key-value pairs. Maps are enclosed in curly braces ({}), and each element in the map is defined as "key" = "value". Both the key and value can be of any data type.

For example: {"key1" = "value1", "key2" = "value2"}.
```
  variable "file_contents" {
      type = map
      default = {
          "statement1" = "this is cool"
          "statement2" = "this is cooler"
      }
  }
```

Set: Represents an unordered collection of unique values. Sets are similar to lists but do not allow duplicate values. Sets are enclosed in curly braces ({}) and use the ["value1", "value2"] syntax.

 variable "ingress_rules" {
   type    = set(object({
     from_port   = number
     to_port     = number
     protocol    = string
     cidr_blocks = list(string)
   }))
   default = [
     {
       from_port   = 22
       to_port     = 22
       protocol    = "tcp"
       cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
     },
     {
       from_port   = 80
       to_port     = 80
       protocol    = "tcp"
       cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
     }
   ]
 }

 resource "aws_security_group" "example_security_group" {
   ingress {
     from_port   = var.ingress_rules[0].from_port
     to_port     = var.ingress_rules[0].to_port
     protocol    = var.ingress_rules[0].protocol
     cidr_blocks = var.ingress_rules[0].cidr_blocks
   }

   ingress {
     from_port   = var.ingress_rules[1].from_port
     to_port     = var.ingress_rules[1].to_port
     protocol    = var.ingress_rules[1].protocol
     cidr_blocks = var.ingress_rules[1].cidr_blocks
   }

   vpc_id = aws_vpc.example_vpc.id
 }

Object: Represents a complex data structure with multiple attributes. Objects are defined using the . syntax to access nested attributes.

 variable "vpc_config" {
   type = object({
     cidr_block       = string
     instance_tenancy = string
   })
   default = {
     cidr_block       = "10.0.0.0/16"
     instance_tenancy = "default"
   }
 }

 resource "aws_vpc" "example_vpc" {
   cidr_block       = var.vpc_config.cidr_block
   instance_tenancy = var.vpc_config.instance_tenancy
 }

Thank you for reading!!
~Shreya Gupta

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Day 63 - Terraform Variables

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Terraform Variables

Create a local file using Terraform

Data Types in Terraform