Data Types: Complex Types

Create a module

The first thing we’ll need to do for this lesson is, create a folder named ltthw_complex_data_types.

Complex types: objects

Complex types allow us to collect variables of different types into a single variable.

If you’ve used object-oriented languages, the object type may look familiar. It allows us to bind together variables of different types to specific names in a way similar to a class in other languages. In this example, we’ve created an object that represents a rectangle. Then we’ve added an output to the outputs.tf file. Then we added an item to the testing.tfvars file, or we could have experimented directly with terraform apply.

Now run the module: