Learn how to use Terraform variables

#terraform #devops #infrastructureascode
Learn how to extract hard-coded values into variables that you can set at runtime, as defaults or in a variables file. You can pass the variables file in at plan time, allowing you to have different sets depending on your environment.
If you have any questions about this video, or suggestions for content I should cover next, please leave a comment, or reach out to me on social media, details are down below.
Pull up a 🪑and bring a ☕/ 🍵/ 🍸/ 🍺, this channel focusses on Cloud related tech, mostly AWS, with practical, hands-on guides. New videos posted weekly (soon). If you have questions / suggestions for content, please leave a comment on any of the videos.
AWS Technical Developer Advocate, focussing on DevOps ❤️, containers 📦 and a bit of security🔐. Opinions are mine.
COME CHAT:
Twitter: bit.ly/cobus-twitter
LinkedIn: bit.ly/cobus-linkedin
Instagram: bit.ly/cobus-insta
Facebook: bit.ly/cobus-facebook

[@jigneshpatel5469]

Great video. Best explanation on TF variables ❤

[@marianodangelo8220]

BEST VARIABLES VIDEO BY FAR

[@Dinasdas]

Очень хорошо показал, все четко и по делу, спасибо.

[@theberserkalchemist8598]

This is one of the best videos on the subject of variables and terraform. Thank you so much and well done!

[@NVME57]

Thank you Cobus. Great content. Concise and thorough. I like how you show not only what to do , but also what not to do by showing the intermediate steps in the terminal with all the errors that occur. Thank you.

[@nforlife]

nice, easy to understand and straight to the point. Thank you Cobus

[@guibitencourts]

Hey man, thank you! Your job are helping a lot of people!

[@joeb.1163]

Very clear and straight to the point

[@_indrid_cold_]

Top notch. Really clear and effective descriptions. Thank you.

[@omega-the-loner]

I am just starting with terraform and this video gave me exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot! 👍🏻

[@Constantine769]

Great video! Definitely needs more exposure and views. Please keep doing what you're doing. Thank you!

[@MohamedElsayed-tc5yg]

Thanks, please continue the series

[@srgd108]

exactly what I was looking for

[@EricOnYouTube]

Oh, GREAT video. Thanks a ton.

[@Hufsa]

I usually don't enjoy tutorial videos but this time I understood so I'm really happy :p honestly terraform documentation confused me and I was mad about it, thank you so much for such great explanation

[@techwithraja]

Thank you Cobus, Well Done :) Very easy to understand and clear explanation....

[@mirsaidalizade4639]

It was my first time watching your video. That's so easy to learn with you!

[@theconfusedchannel6365]

Excellent!, thanks

[@BiswajitKeshariMohanty]

Great Video! Really helpful! Thank you.

[@clarkragay13]

Incredible video, thanks for the thorough explanation.

[@moinkhan]

Great video, thanks.

[@devips5102]

Thank you sir. Excellent video

[@shahresokhta]

Thanks brother You explain very well Good job 👏

[@muhammadmejanulhaque3305]

Thanks, man. Loved the content.

[@donskye5750]

Very beautiful and good video. Keep it up more videos

[@EnriqueSalceda]

Awesome video mate, very well explained

[@eddieteah3102]

great video

[@bschaatsbergen]

Great tutorial, subscribed :)!

[@i.r.baboon]

Subb'd - love your style Cobus!

[@josephcornejo7191]

I love the video! I learned so much, I just have a question. So once you have made the tvars files for a couple environments, lets say dev and prod environments. If I wanted to a later date go and add another resource, would I always have to run the plan and apply commands with the varfile flag? would it recreate all the instances? Sorry I am new, thank you for your patience!

[@kishanbsh]

Does the state file also get affected when running for prod.tfvars vs dev.tfvars? I felt that could have been also covered in the video. 🙂

[@Heavy1021]

Thank you! But how about *.auto.tfvars?

[@senglobe]

When I terraform apply with diff -var-file, the initially created resources (lets say prod.tfvars) are replaced with new var lets say (dev). It is not creating diff environment

[@dwainDigital]

Why do I get this error (sorry a newbee) " To specify a working directory for the plan, use the global -chdir flag" I have my tfvars file in a folder called env-vars/dev.tfvars. So when I run "Terraform plan -var-file=dev.tfvars" or "Terraform plan -var-file=env-vars\dev.tfvars" what am I doing wrong?

[@chamodhhettiarachchi6244]

I`m also getting the same error