Input Variables (Variables)

Variables in Terraform are like in any other programming or scripting language; they hold values. Variables can hold many different types of information to call on later in a configuration file.

Variable definition syntax

Variables are handy HCL constructs that can be defined in a few different ways and in a few different places.

Blocks

Variables can be defined in a block with various arguments in the form:

variable "<variable name>" {
    type = <type> ## string, number or bool
    <default = <value>>
    <description = "">
}

You can find more information about each type of argument assigned to a variable in the ...