Provisioners in Terraform Explained |Terraform Provisioner block : File, Local exec and Remote exec

Terraform Provisioner Block Tutorial for Devops beginners : This video explains the different provisioners provided by Terraform the Infrastructure as a code tool. Provisioners can be used to model specific actions on the local machine or on a remote machine in order to prepare servers or other infrastructure objects for service.
Provisioner in Terraform are of 3 different types - File Provisioner, Local-exec provisioner and Remote-exec provisioner.
In this video tutorial I will explain all the different provisioners with example and code snippet. So watch and Learn Terraform with cloudchamp !

Topics Covered:
1. What are Provisioners in Terraform? 0:00 - 0:20
2. Why are Provisioners used? (use cases) 0:20 - 0:40
3. Types of Provisioners in Terraform 0:50 - 1:20
4. Connection Block in Terraform Provisioner 1:21 - 3:03
5. File Provisioner with example 3:05 - 5:43
6. Local-exec Provisioner with example 5:45 - 7:21
7. Local-exec Provisioner with example 7:25 - 10:00
8. Summary 10:00 - 10:15

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Terraform Provisioner Tutorial with example

[nidhisarupria]

│ Error: file provisioner error
│
│ with module.ec2_instance.aws_instance.instance_1,
│ on modules\ec2_instance\main.tf line 61, in resource "aws_instance" "instance_1":
│ 61: provisioner "file" {
│
│ host for provisioner cannot be empty

how to solve this problem, any idea

[dhebbygodspride]

Can't you use file provisioners to move the ansible hosts, playbook and config files to the ec2 instance?