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Getting Started with Terraform

You're reading from   Getting Started with Terraform Manage production infrastructure as a code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623537
Length 208 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Infrastructure Automation FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying First Server 3. Resource Dependencies and Modules 4. Storing and Supplying Configuration 5. Connecting with Other Tools 6. Scaling and Updating Infrastructure 7. Collaborative Infrastructure 8. Future of Terraform

Bringing in high availability

With AWS, going HA can be as simple as putting instances into different subnets assigned to different availability zones. An availability zone is an isolated location within one AWS region, and you can look at it as a separate data center.

We are passing subnet ID as a variable to the application module, and we are passing exactly one subnet ID. This needs to be changed, that is, we will update the subnet_id variable to be the list of two elements. Then, depending on the index of an aws_instance resource, we will assign either the first or the second subnet to it.

First of all, replace the subnet_id variable with the subnets variable and specify the type as list to avoid anything else being passed to the module:

variable "subnets"   { type = "list "} 
If you set the default value of variable to be [], then Terraform will understand...
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