Terraform - Datatypes

Terraform objects contain different datatypes such as variables.

There are two types of Datatypes

• Scalar variable types
• Collection variable types

Scalar Primitive Variable types

• string: It stores a group of characters enclosed in double-quotes.

variable "key_name" {
  type  = string
  default = "aws_key"
}

• number: It is used to store the numerical values. It can be an integer or a floating number.

variable "number" {
  type  = number
  default = 10
}

• bool:

It can be true and false values.

variable "enable_feature" {
  type  = bool
  default = true
} 

Collection variable types

The following represents complex types that hold multiple values of different types

• list: It is used to represent a group of values to pass terraform

  variable "listvariable" {
  type  = list
  default = ["one", "two", "three"]
}

• set: It is used to store values in unordered elements.

variable "setvariable" {
  type  = set(string)
  default = ["one", "two"]
}

• map: map used to store keys and values.

 variable "maptype" {
  type = map(string)
  default = {
    key      = "default-value"
  }
}