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More Complex Variables

More Complex Variables

In this lesson, we'll learn about some more complex Terraform variables.

We'll cover the following...

Project example

Let’s look at a more complex example using a map and selecting a value from it with variables:

instance_map = {
    dev = "t3.small"
    test = "t3.medium"
    prod = "t3.large"
}

environment_type = "dev"
Variables complex project example

  • In our variables file, we are setting instance_map to a map.

  • A map is a collection of values indexed by a key name. We have set three keys in our map

    • dev
    • test
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