Terraform Variables and Locals - Daily Check-in for May 5, 2020

It's #TerraformTuesday and I'm talking about #Terraform Variables and Locals

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[prashanthchalla]

Thanks a lot. The difference b/w locals and variables and their scope is well explained.

[Constantine]

More videos please! Clear and concise explanation. Thanks!

[robertgoodall]

How about using variables with terraform enterprise and cli?

[marciapelaez]

Hello Ned, I have been trying the samples from your Pluralsight but they seem to be not updated to the current version.. I'm starting to learn so I don't understand the error messages

[Boliccov]

it's normal to search ami_id
i use output & filter for that for moment - i begin in terraform ;-)

i know that we can i have the modules for that: find_ami for example
but we can do same thing with something query in terraform ?

# search amazon_linux_id for my intances.tf
data "aws_ami" "amazon" {
most_recent = true
owners = ["amazon"]

filter {
name = "virtualization-type"
values = ["hvm"]
}

filter {
name = "description"
values = ["Amazon Linux *"]
}

filter {
name = "architecture"
values = ["x86_64"]
}
}

for cheating
variables.tf
ami_id= <findOud via awsConsole>

instances.tf
ami_id = var.ami_id

it's work, but not clean or expert [joke] !?

thnks