How to Use Terraform’s ‘for_each’, with Examples

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmcclung Terraform is one of the most popular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_code (IaC) tools. With Terraform, you can write code that defines the infrastructure components you want and the configuration for them. You then execute that code, and Terraform will make sure that your infrastructure is set up the way you defined it.

In reality, Terraform code can be quite complicated.

21 resource "google_compute_instance""vm"{ for_each = { "vm1" = { vm_size = "e2-small", zone = "us-central1-a"} "vm2" = { vm_size = "e2-medium", zone = "us-central1-b"} "vm3" = { vm_size = "f1-micro", zone = "us-central1-c"} name = each.key machine_type = each.value.vm_size zone = each.value.zone

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