How to Refresh State in Terraform
Sometimes your infrastructure may be out of sync with your Terraform state because resources may have been amended or deleted manually.
For this you …
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How to write If/Else Statements in Terraform
If/Else statements are conditional statements that perform decisions based on some known state, or variable.
Terraform allows you to perform these …
Read Article →How to Remove a Resource from Terraform State
Terraform state reflects the most up to date reference of the infrastructure.
Sometimes you may need to remove a resource from the Terraform state …
Read Article →How to Delete a Specific Resource in Terraform
Running terraform destroy will tear down the whole stack associated to some terraform code.
However, sometimes you might only want to remove a …
Read Article →How to Create a DynamoDB Lock Table for Terraform
Provision the DynamoDB Table
resource "aws_dynamodb_table" "dynamodb-terraform-state-lock" {
name = …How to add Comments in Terraform
Terraform, a powerful Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, allows you to define and provision infrastructure resources. Properly commenting your …
Read Article →How to log/debug in Terraform
If you have Terraform reporting an error but want more information, then you can configure debug logging.
How to configure Bash
export …How to add a Lambda Environment Variable in Terraform
If you have an aws_lambda_function block that needs to make use of environment variables, then you can simply do the following:
resource …How to Generate a Random Number/String in Terraform
If you need to generate a random number or string in Terraform, then you can use the following:
resource "random_id" "myrandom" { …[Solved] Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp: lookup with AWS EKS
If you have received the following error while trying to issue commands to kubectl:
Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp: lookup
Then it may be …
Read Article →How to Store Terraform State in AWS S3
Storing Terraform states files locally is not recommended. Instead you should use a backend such as as S3 from AWS.
To do this, you just need to add …
Read Article →How to view a Terraform Module’s Output
An output in Terraform is a way to view the result of an action that has been performed, or resource that has been created.
Let’s say that you …
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