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More Than One Instance of the Same Provider
We will learn to create multiple instances of the same provider and to add provider property.
Creating multiple instances of the same provider
Since region
is a required parameter in the AWS provider, you may be wondering how to create
resources in different regions. Is that possible in a single Terraform project? Well, yes, it is. To do this, you simply create multiple instances of the same provider.
Project example
Consider the following project:
provider "aws" { region = "us-east-1" } provider "aws" { region = "us-east-2" alias = "ohio" } resource "aws_vpc" "n_virginia_vpc" { cidr_block = "10.0.0.0/16" } resource "aws_vpc" "ohio_vpc" { cidr_block = "10.1.0.0/16" provider = aws.ohio }
AWS provider instances
As you can see, we are defining two instances of the AWS provider. One points at the region
us-east-1
while the other points at the region us-east-2
. For the one that is pointing at us-east-2
, ...