Terraform Cheatsheets

Cheatsheets

Terraform CLI Usage

Terraform Format:

terraform fmt

Validate terraform syntax:

terraform validate

Validate terraform syntax and skip backend validation:

terraform validate -backend=false

Initialize and download providers:

terraform init

Terraform plan to review what will be changed:

terraform plan

Terraform Apply to create/delete resources:

terraform apply

To do a targeted plan:

terraform plan -target=module.platform -out=platform.tfplan

Then we can do a targeted destroy from the computed plan:

terraform apply "platform.tfplan"

Merge function

In this scenario, you can have default tags, but if you want to replace Environment, you can define the var.environment and include it in the merge function.

variable "default_tags" {
  default = {
    ManagedBy   = "terraform"
    Environment = "local"
  }
}

variable "name" {
  default = "testing"
}

variable "environment" {
  default = "dev"
}

output "merge_tags" {
  value = "${merge(var.default_tags, tomap({"Name" = "prefix-${var.name}", "Environment" = "${var.environment}"}))}"
}

Validations

Length:

variable "service_name" {
  type = string

  validation {
    condition     = length(var.service_name) < 40
    error_message = "The service_name value cant be more than 40 characters."
  }
}

Regex match:

variable "env_name" {
  type = string
  default = null
  validation {
    condition  = can(regex("^(dev|staging|production|ephemeral-.*)+$", var.env_name))
    error_message = "For the env_name value only dev, staging, production and ephemeral-* are allowed."
  }
}

Booleans to control

We want to use a boolean variable to set the number:

• true = 1
• false = 0

warm_pool = {
  pool_state                  = "Running"
  min_size                    = var.warm_pool_enabled ? 1 : 0
  max_group_prepared_capacity = var.warm_pool_enabled ? 1 : 0
}

Resources

Terraform Tutorials:

• @codeaprendiz terraform-kitchen

Terraform Examples:

• rtfm.co.ua - AWS Examples
• Jeff Geerling - Terraform and Vagrant Example
• Jeff Geerling - Mac Playbook Examples
• Kulasangar - AWS with IAM Policies Example
• AWS with IAM Policy Exampe #2
• phillipsj.net Terraform Blogposts
• Deploy EKS with Terraform
• ECS with Terraform
• Cross Account VPC Peering
• VPC Peering with AWS
• Multiple AWS Examples
• AWS API Gateway
• API GW: Moving from Serverless Framework
• Nodejs API GW with Lambda
• Minimal Viable CICD with Terraform and AWS CodePipeline

Learn Guides:

• Hashicorp Terraform Modules
• Terraform Study Guide

Terraform Cheatsheets

• acloudguru cheatsheet

Terraform AWS Workshops:

• Terraform EKS AWS Workshop
• Terraform Guru

Terraform with Ansible Examples:

• Terraform with Ansible Example #1
• Terraform with Ansible Example #2
• Using a JumpHost in Ansible with Terraform | Lambda Auto Package

Terraform States:

• gruntwork.io - Manage Terraform State

Terraform Providers:

• Terraform Ansible Provider #1