Reader small image

You're reading from  Getting Started with Terraform. - Second Edition

Product typeBook
Published inJul 2017
Reading LevelBeginner
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781788623537
Edition2nd Edition
Languages
Right arrow
Author (1)
Kirill Shirinkin
Kirill Shirinkin
author image
Kirill Shirinkin

Kirill Shirinkin is an IT consultant who focuses on Cloud technologies and DevOps practices. He has worked in companies of different sizes and areas, from an online language learning leader to a major IT provider for the global travel industry and one of the largest management consultancies. He is also a cofounder of online mentorship platform mkdev.me, where he leads a team and teaches his students all about DevOps.
Read more about Kirill Shirinkin

Right arrow

Bringing in high availability


With AWS, going HA can be as simple as putting instances into different subnets assigned to different availability zones. An availability zone is an isolated location within one AWS region, and you can look at it as a separate data center.

We are passing subnet ID as a variable to the application module, and we are passing exactly one subnet ID. This needs to be changed, that is, we will update the subnet_id variable to be the list of two elements. Then, depending on the index of an aws_instance resource, we will assign either the first or the second subnet to it.

First of all, replace the subnet_id variable with the subnets variable and specify the type as list to avoid anything else being passed to the module:

variable "subnets"   { type = "list "} 

Note

If you set the default value of variable to be [], then Terraform will understand that this variable is a list.

In root template, we need to change the subnet_cidr variable to make it availability zone aware and...

lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Page
You have been reading a chapter from
Getting Started with Terraform. - Second Edition
Published in: Jul 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788623537

Author (1)

author image
Kirill Shirinkin

Kirill Shirinkin is an IT consultant who focuses on Cloud technologies and DevOps practices. He has worked in companies of different sizes and areas, from an online language learning leader to a major IT provider for the global travel industry and one of the largest management consultancies. He is also a cofounder of online mentorship platform mkdev.me, where he leads a team and teaches his students all about DevOps.
Read more about Kirill Shirinkin