devops-exercises/topics/terraform/exercises/terraform_local_provider/exercise.md

Local Provider

Objectives

Learn how to use and run Terraform basic commands

1. Create a directory called "my_first_run"
2. Inside the directory create a file called "main.tf" with the following content

resource "local_file" "mario_local_file" {
    content  = "It's a me, Mario!"
    filename = "/tmp/who_is_it.txt"
}

3. Run terraform init. What did it do?
4. Run terraform plan. What Terraform is going to perform?
5. Finally, run terraform apply and verify the file was created

Solution

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