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Getting Started with Terraform. - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623537
Pages 208 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Kirill Shirinkin Kirill Shirinkin
Profile icon Kirill Shirinkin

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Infrastructure Automation 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

Removing duplication with modules


Modules in Terraform are used to group multiple resources. You can reuse this grouping multiple times. You can also configure modules with variables, and modules can return output that you can pass to other resources and modules.

To get started with modules, create a folder named modules in the same folder as the template.tf. Inside this folder, create another one, named application. In this folder, we will keep the module responsible for creating all the resources required by a single application, be it MightyTrousers, CrazyFoods, or anything else.

A module is a regular Terraform template, so just create the ./modules/application/application.tf file with the following contents:

resource "aws_security_group" "allow_http" { 
  name = "allow_http" 
  description = "Allow HTTP traffic" 
  vpc_id = "${aws_vpc.my_vpc.id}" 
  ingress { 
    from_port = 80 
    to_port = 80 
    protocol = "tcp" 
    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"] 
  } 
 
  egress { 
    from_port =...
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