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Infrastructure as Code Cookbook

Infrastructure as Code Cookbook

By : Stephane Jourdan, Pierre Pomès
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Infrastructure as Code Cookbook

Infrastructure as Code Cookbook

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By: Stephane Jourdan, Pierre Pomès

Overview of this book

Para 1: Infrastructure as code is transforming the way we solve infrastructural challenges. This book will show you how to make managing servers in the cloud faster, easier and more effective than ever before. With over 90 practical recipes for success, make the very most out of IAC.
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Generating meaningful outputs with Terraform

Wouldn't it be great if Terraform could show us useful, informational output after a successful run? Following what we've done so far, it would be helpful to know how to connect to the instance, what are the local and public IP addresses, or see the security groups used. That's what Terraform's outputs are for.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need the following:

  • A working Terraform installation
  • An AWS provider and an EC2 instance (using a SSH keypair and a Security Group), all configured in Terraform (refer to the previous recipes)
  • An Internet connection

How to do it…

Thankfully, we can use the same syntax we're already using to access variables and attributes of references, but this time in an output resource.

Let's start by simply adding a line in outputs.tf that would show us how to connect to our virtual machine, using the public_ip attribute of our dev EC2 instance:

output "login&quot...

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