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Terraform Outputs on GCP: Querying Useful Data from a VPC, Subnet, and VM

DEV Community·Abraham Naiborhu·27 days ago
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Hi, we are back again. Previously, I created a simple Google Cloud VPC and then improved the configuration by introducing variables. This time, I want to continue with another Terraform concept: outputs . But, we will not be using the previous code, because adding outputs for one vpc is too simple. So, I made the lab slightly more practical. In this lab, I will create: a custom VPC network a subnet with a defined CIDR range a small Compute Engine VM Terraform outputs to query useful information after provisioning The goal is to understand how Terraform outputs can expose important infrastructure data after resources are created. Reference: Hasicorp website about gcp tutorial Why Outputs Matter When Terraform creates infrastructure, it stores a lot of resource data in the state file. However, as users, we usually do not need to read everything.…

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