Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Terraform Cookbook

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

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804616420
Length 634 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Tools
Concepts
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Mikael Krief Mikael Krief
Author Profile Icon Mikael Krief
Mikael Krief
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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 dynamic expressions

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).

Until Terraform version 0.12, it was not possible to make these blocks present several times in the same resource dynamically using, for example, a variable of list type.

One of the great feature Terraform is the dynamic expression...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at ₹800/month. Cancel anytime