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Terraform Cookbook

You're reading from   Terraform Cookbook Master Infrastructure as Code efficiency with real-world Azure automation using Terraform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804616420
Length 634 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Setting Up the Terraform Environment 2. Writing Terraform Configurations FREE CHAPTER 3. Scaling Your Infrastructure with Terraform 4. Using Terraform with External Data 5. Managing Terraform State 6. Applying a Basic Terraform Workflow 7. Sharing Terraform Configuration with Modules 8. Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform 9. Getting Starting to Provisioning AWS and GCP Infrastructure Using Terraform 10. Using Terraform for Docker and Kubernetes Deployment 11. Running Test and Compliance Security on Terraform Configuration 12. Deep-Diving into Terraform 13. Automating Terraform Execution in a CI/CD Pipeline 14. Using Terraform Cloud to Improve Team Collaboration 15. Troubleshooting Terraform Errors 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix A: Terraform Cheat Sheet 1. Appendix B: Terraform Resources

Generating multiple blocks with the dynamic block

Terraform resources are defined by the following elements:

  • Properties that are in the form property name = value, which we have seen several times in this book
  • Blocks that represent a grouping of properties, such as the site_config block inside the azurerm_linux_web_app resource

Depending on the Terraform resource, a block can be present once or even multiple times in the same resource, such as the security_rule block inside the azurerm_network_security_group resource (see the documentation, for example, at  https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/network_security_group).

One of the great features of Terraform is the dynamic block, which allows us to loop the blocks in resources.

In this recipe, we will see how to use the dynamic block to provision an azurerm_network_security_group resource in Azure...

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