Terraform: From Beginner to Master with Examples in AWS/

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In chapter Resources, we covered the basics of resources. In this chapter, we are going to cover some more advanced techniques that will help you on your Terraform journey.

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Let’s say that you wanted to create lots of resources and you wanted them all to be pretty much the same. This would be a pretty laborious task if you used the techniques we have learned so far since it would come down to copy and pasting a resource again and again. If you later wanted to make a change to the resource, you would have to change every copy.

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provider "aws" {
  region  = "us-east-2"
}
resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue0" {
    name = "queue-0"
}
resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue1" {
    name = "queue-1"
}
resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue2" {
    name = "queue-2"
}
resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue3" {
    name = "queue-3"
}
output "queue-0-name" {
  value = aws_sqs_queue.queue0.name
}

In the example above, we create four ...