Terraform Tutorial — Resources
Resources are the most important element in Terraform. Every resource block describes one piece of infrastructure — an S3 bucket, an EC2 instance, a VPC, a DNS record. This chapter teaches you to create, update, and manage resources effectively.
What’s in this Chapter?
| # | Topic | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Resource Block Anatomy | Type, name, arguments, attributes |
| 2 | Creating an S3 Bucket | Step-by-step first resource |
| 3 | Resource Dependencies | Implicit and explicit dependencies |
| 4 | Resource Lifecycle | create_before_destroy, prevent_destroy |
| 5 | Meta-Arguments Overview | count, for_each, depends_on, lifecycle |
| 6 | Practice Exercises | Hands-on resource creation |
Chapter Overview
In the Introduction, we said Terraform describes WHAT you want. Resources are WHERE you describe it. Every resource block maps to a real-world object in your cloud provider.
