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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

You're reading from   HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide Pass the Terraform Associate exam and manage IaC to scale across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565975
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ravi Mishra Ravi Mishra
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know IaC 3. Chapter 2: Terraform Installation Guide 4. Section 2: Core Concepts
5. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Terraform 6. Chapter 4: Deep Dive into Terraform 7. Chapter 5: Terraform CLI 8. Chapter 6: Terraform Workflows 9. Chapter 7: Terraform Modules 10. Section 3: Managing Infrastructure with Terraform
11. Chapter 8: Terraform Configuration Files 12. Chapter 9: Understanding Terraform Stacks 13. Chapter 10: Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise 14. Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary
15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding Terraform loops

In this section, we will be discussing different methods of Terraform loops. Like other programming languages, Terraform also supports some sorts of loops and this will help you to perform N number of Terraform operations very smoothly. Let's try to understand this with an example. Suppose you are working with your colleague, Mark, in one of the multinational companies (MNCs). You are both discussing one of the requirements – the need to deploy an Azure virtual network with 10 different subnets along with a Network Security Group (NSG) associated with all these subnets. You tell Mark that this can be easily done using Terraform loops rather than writing the same code block for the subnet again and again.

We will explain how effectively we can write our Terraform configuration code block using Terraform loops. The following loops are supported by Terraform:

  • count: Looping over resources
  • for_each: Looping over resources and inline...
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