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Exploring Terraform Variables

Explore how Terraform variables define and manage critical parameters like region, Kubernetes version, and node counts for AWS EKS clusters. Understand the role of default and runtime variable values in creating scalable, customizable infrastructure as code setups.

Viewing variables in Terraform

Generally speaking, entries in Terraform definitions are split into four groups:

  • Provider
  • Resource
  • Output
  • Variable

That’s not to say that there aren’t other types (there are) but those four are the most important and the most commonly used. For now, we’ll focus on variables and leave the rest for later.

Note: All the configuration files we’ll need are in the file subdirectory. ...