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Outputting Resource Properties

Outputting Resource Properties

Learn more about Terraform output and output resource properties.

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The first example is pretty basic and, in the real world, probably not very useful. Outputs are much more useful when used to output the values of resources that have been created as part of a Terraform run.

Terraform output project example

Let’s create another Terraform project and output the values of resources as a part of a Terraform run:

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provider "aws" {
    region = "us-east-2"
}
resource "aws_s3_bucket" "first_bucket" {
    bucket = "kevholditch-bucket-outputs"
}
output "bucket_name" {
    value = aws_s3_bucket.first_bucket.id
}
output "bucket_arn" {
    value = aws_s3_bucket.first_bucket.arn
}
output "bucket_information" {
    value = "bucket name: ${aws_s3_bucket.first_bucket.id}, bucket arn: ${aws_s3_bucket.first_bucket.arn}"
}

Let’s walk through the above code.

  • The provider and resource should be familiar to you. We are simply ...