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Using Terraform Outputs in GCP
You are a DevOps engineer with an organization that is rapidly adopting Terraform to automate their GCP infrastructure. A team has a CI/CD solution to create new VMs on demand; however, this rapid creation is causing concerns about cloud sprawl. You will need to work with the team to capture information about the infrastructure they are creating with Terraform and generate a report that is available on demand for stakeholders who want to know what is running. To accomplish this, you can make use of Terraform outputs, as well as template files and the local provider.
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Challenge
Create a 'vm' module and Deploy 2 VMs Based on the Module
- Create a
terraformdirectory to work in. - Create a
modulesdirectory and, inside it, create avmdirectory. - Create a
terraform/vm/main.tffile. - Create a
terraform/main.tffile. - Execute
terraform init. - Execute
terraform apply.
- Create a
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Challenge
Create a CSV File with the IP Addresses for All VMs Using Terraform
- Create a
manifest.tftpltemplate file. - Add template syntax to generate a CSV in the template file.
- Create a
local_fileresource. - Execute
terraform apply. - Add another name to the
vm_namesvariable. - Execute
terraform apply.
- Create a
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