Not everything in your cloud is managed by Terraform. In this episode, you will learn how to use the ‘data’ block to interrogate the AWS API. Fetch the latest Ubuntu AMI ID dynamically, or retrieve a VPC ID created by the Networking team, ensuring your code remains hardcode-free.
Hardcoding values in Terraform is a bad practice. In this episode, we will introduce Input Variables and Data Types to make your code reusable across multiple environments. You will also learn how to extract critical information using Outputs.
It is time to build real infrastructure. In this episode, we will declare an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and a Subnet. You will learn how Terraform intelligently determines the correct order of creation using the Dependency Graph, preventing race conditions.
Stop deploying cloud resources manually. In this first episode, we will transform your approach to cloud architecture by introducing declarative IaC. You will learn how Terraform tracks physical resources using the state file, and execute your first local configuration.
