Modules, Loops and More: How to Scale with Terraform

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Modules, Loops and More: How to Scale with Terraform Scott McAllister Principal Developer Advocate

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The Pain @stmcallister

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Infrastructure as Code Fast Consistent Reduce Errors Self documenting Fast @stmcallister

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The Pain @stmcallister

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Modules @stmcallister

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Modules @stmcallister

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Loops @stmcallister

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Loops count Terraform’s oldest, simplest, most limited looping construct. for_each Loop over lists, sets, maps. Result is a map of resources for expressions creates a complex type value by transforming another complex type value for string directive String directives allow to use control statements within strings @stmcallister

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Resources Terraform: Up & Running Yevgeniy Brikman https://www.terraformupandrunning.com/ @stmcallister

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Resources Scaling with Terraform Sample Code https://github.com/stmcallister/scaling-with-terraform @stmcallister

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Scott McAllister Speaker, Writer, Coder @stmcallister stmcallister.github.io @stmcallister.bsky.social techhub.social/@stmcallister