Creating a module in Terraform - Getting started with Terraform Modules (part 1)

[@jigneshpatel5469]

Best ever session on TF modules.

[@Jambajakumba]

I've just discovered you. I'm definitely here to stay. Thank you for the video.

[@khemnathChauhan]

Good one.

[@TilakVardhan]

Wow! This is certainly the easiest explanation I've come across. Thanks, man!

[@peterrubinstein6975]

great job mann, i just got into terraform and this helped alot

[@EJBest-DevSecOps]

Seems like a good piece; but I am trying to type it all in to "get real experience" and seems that I am missing "files" from a previous piece. Perhaps will get blasted as they could be here someplace but seems to not be able to find them

[@zvirtual1724]

Cobus, thanks for this.....honestly this was as very clear explanation of modules as well as the best example of using the variables.tf file. Nice!

[@pscoriae6981]

awesome, this was really easy to follow and now I understand clearly. Thanks!

[@takione5991]

Great work! Watching the whole list and learning a lot.

[@ThePotassiumiodide]

Thanks, this was really clear! Do you think you could also share the code through a repo?

[@donskye5750]

I am enyouying your video. It's very well explain and easy to understand. You make complex explanation to be easy.Ty

[@rodrigueawom1565]

This was a great experience, Can you pls cover backend.

[@padmanathanmariappan5694]

Wow really good content for beginners

[@2012gaspar]

Great content, I learned very about it and I´m studying more about because I have to build an infrastructure with 4 environments and 4 vpc´s. Thank you

[@amauryborgessouza6064]

Do you have any GitHub profile to fork the project? appreciate your videos!!!

[@vikinoX]

so nice work man!

[@diegonayalazo]

Thanks for sharing

[@saurabhgoreamazing9368]

Surprised to know that the infra is created without AWS credentials. How are you authenticating terraform

[@CobusBernard]

It falls back on whichever credentials are provided - can be ones you have configured for your AWS CLI (SSO or Api key/secret), or the IAM role if you are running on EC2. Never a good idea to hard code credentials in a file that will be added to version control (git).

[@Umar0x01]

Thanks - could you do one for monitoring and alerting if someone creates/terminates some instance. I want to see some sample TF rules. Thanks!

[@ayencoscolfield3312]

Could not have asked for more you nailed it man,kudos but could you do a video on the use of different functions in terraform. thanks for the effort so far

[@diegoraggio3180]

great video!

[@ickebinberliner]

Great Tutorial, thank you very much. You helped me a lot!

[@michaelduncan6769]

Thank you for the video. I have a question, what if I wanted to spin up a new instance without destroying the first instance I created. How do I run the same terraform code to create a new instance without destroying the one it created previously and how do I repeat that for future instance creation ?

[@eakokel]

Good, but you never showed what was in the env tfvars files?

[@usheeg]

ec2_instance_name = "Terraform EC2" ec2_instance_type = "t2-micro" ec2_ami = "ami-0cd8ad123effa531a" the variables are customed but this is pretty much what he used to override the values for vars terraform plan -var-file=.tfvars

[@arvinvitug7744]

where can you find what can be used as outputs for a given resource?

[@usheeg]

In your CLI after running terraform plan you'll see this at the end and once you run terraform apply you'll see the output hope this helps Changes to Outputs: + instance_id = (known after apply)

[@surekaka4916]

Excellent Tutorial :) learned a lot in a short time .. keep up the good work .

[@wyattblake4126]

if you needed to create more than one ec2 instance with different settings what would be the best way to do that? Would you create a second module with a different name?

[@stevegrimes5105]

thanks for the video. I tried to find this example, I'd like to see the root and sub module files.

[@pallavianand564]

Hi Cobus, This is really simple and understandable. Although I have one question : we have 3 services created in our dev environment : S3,Elastic Search and RDS but I am not understanding that how do I create a module and which would benefit each service? Can you please help me with that.

[@desmondamberetu4345]

Cool

[@akramsystems]

bless your soul

[@vitality7195]

Where is the source code?

[@vitality7195]

At all can't understand what your are doing. What represents abstraction: new_module or parent directory?

[@diegonayalazo]

Thanks

[@shilashm5691]

This is not a recommended way of creating a module. Please refer to the docs. You need a directory of modules inside it you can create a different directory that is a module

[@xammocoloniax]

agreed with others, nice content but plz share the code.

[@xammocoloniax]

like really, what are we supposed to do without seeing the content in the first ~20 lines of example.tf or the /variables directory that you all of a sudden involve at 10:33 without having introduced it? i am sort of a noob, so is it just me?

[@sab611]

should say, ec2_instance_name = var.ec2_instance_name ;-)

[@johnmorsley]

Cracking content, but please, please, please, drop the background music. It's so incredibly distracting and annoying.

[@Ritch548]

Using a root module is better practice

[@wisdom2608]

Not nice at all. You talked of VPC and in return created an ec2 instance.

[@tekoverlbert6516]

hi

[@alex-ce2te]

Braa! Your module explanation is not clear. You were practically moving unnecessarily too fast without a detailed explanation.

[@mymacaintwag]

This is really bad explained,actually you explain almost nothing, but expect implicitly everything to be derived… Anyhow thanks for the video, it helps of course.