In this article, I will guide you through the process of configuring a Terraform module hosted on GitHub.com as a source for the use inside Terraform module projects. In my previous blog (Part 1), I demonstrated how to set up a GitHub.com repository and branch using HashiCorp Terraform code.
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While working with Terraform, I needed to deploy resources without relying on the count meta-argument. My variable was a list of objects, but using count resulted in index numbers being appended to the resource names. To avoid this, I opted to use the for_each argument to iterate over the list of ob…
This article I will show the example of Terraform looping map of object variable type and using if condition to filter the map key value. In this demo I provided a map of object inside users variable. Following inside the locals variable, I am using logic for loop over map of objects and if cond…
HCP Terraform Cloud is a managed service presented by HashiCorp that permits users to run Terraform in a cloud-based environment. It provides a protected, scalable, and collaborative platform for infrastructure organizational automation.
HCP Terraform Cloud proposes numerous benefits, including:
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After configuring basic K3s (Kubernetes on Docker) setup on my lab with default commands. I found it created single node k8s cluster. I wanted a multi node Kubernetes cluster to be setup with multiple masters and workers.
As my K3d server and cluster is already installed and configured using wit…
Below are the few examples of Terraform on to converting single string to array of list or set. This code I was wanted in my one of my Azure automation task. In this example I have defined a variable justice_leage with same default value..
For conversion, In the first scenario I can use split() …
In this article I have explored all the examples on how to use list of strings with for_each for loop in Terraform resource and output block.
In this first block of example I have defined variable named marvel, it's type is list and value has string names of superheroes inside [ ] squa…
In my previous article on configuring a Terraform module for an Azure Function App with a private endpoint and a storage account, I shown a section within the application_stack block where I needed to implement function apps stacks. Here in this article I focusing on advanced variable validation for…
In this article I am creating Azure Function App linked to Private Endpoint and Storage Account using Terraform. This terraform configuration file will deploy all these resources within couple of minute.
In this automation Resource Group, User Assigned Identity, Virtual Network, Subnet, Private D…
While working with Terraform modules I wanted to pass on multiple provider aliases with specific credentials and azure subscription details to child module. Ideas was to create resources with assigned privileged users. Non privileged users should not be able to create services in Azure.
In this…
In terraform there is no actual if else condition block. But still you can use if condition to filter map or list of objects to get the required keys or values. In below example I have scenario where I wanted to create Resource Group in Azure to defined locations only. Incase no data is provided or…
This is a informational article on how the variable precedence works in Terraform. This is how the priority is defined for variable when you use it in different ways. In the following diagram, it shows the information of variable priority matrix. Lower the number it has higher the priority and it w…
While working on collaborative environment of Terraform deployments, you might encounter an error of acquiring the tf state locking issue. In Terraform word when backend is configured to store state file on remote. It limits multiple users from making changes to environment at the same time to avoid…
In the HashiCorp Terraform context state file is a crucial file when deploying resources through terraform configuration tf file. State file's extension is .tfstate. It is a JSON information/documentation that stores and records details about your organization infrastructure and its configuration. …
In Terraform, the can function is used to determine whether a given expression or operation can be evaluated without causing an error. It returns true if the expression can be evaluated without errors, and false otherwise. This can be particularly useful for handling optional or dynamic attributes t…
I had a task to create multiple Ubuntu Virtual Machines on Microsoft Azure using Terraform. Below is the code for the same. Requirement was VM information should be put into variable with type of map object (Multiple VMs will be created using it). Another requirement was there is already core infras…
This is third part of the script and little bit improvement and 2 separate logics I have added to the script. It is modification of earlier written part Creating a Private Endpoint for Azure Storage Account with Terraform example 2. In the script I wanted to create multiple endpoint for sub resourc…
This part is a revised earlier article of Terraform Azure Create Private Endpoint to existing Storage Account with Custom Private DNS zone record link. when I raised PR (Pull Request) for this configuration, Reviewer asked me to make some changes such way that while creating Private Endpoint, name …
I had a task to deploy multiple subnets to a Azure Virtual Network (vNet) using Hashicorp Terraform HCL. I wanted to test and use element() function combination with count meta argument to do the simple POC with less code and automation. Here is snapshot of my Virtual Network's Subnets view in the p…
This is a second part of Terraform Azure Create Private Endpoint to existing Storage Account with Custom Private DNS zone record link. This article is little bit advance, and here I am creating multiple Private Endpoint based on the provided details in Storage account kind. For example if kind is
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