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Working with Terraform Conditional Expressions in GCP

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Up to 30 minutes
Students: 255
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Description

A major benefit of Terraform is the ability to apply decision-making into your cloud infrastructure. The language used to define Terraform configurations, HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), offers conditional expressions capable of setting resource configurations dynamically. Pairing Terraform modules with conditional expressions can reduce the amount of code needed to build your cloud infrastructue and allow for reusability.

In this lab, you will learn how to incorporate conditional expressions into your Terraform projects to create resources dynamically.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab, you will be able to:

  • Conditionally create GCP resources with Terraform conditional expressions

Intended Audience

  • Individuals looking to pass the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Exam
  • Individuals and teams seeking an introduction to using Terraform with Google Cloud Platform

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • Basic concepts of Google Cloud Platform
  • Terraform Modules

The following lab can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

Updates

April 27th, 2023 - Updated theia to enable autosave

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Environment after

Covered topics

Deployment
DevOps
Google Cloud Platform
Terraform

Lab steps

Activating the Google Cloud Platform Service Account
Creating Terraform Resources Dynamically with Conditional Expressions

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