Terraform meta argument: count

• https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/meta-arguments/count.html

• count = length(var.subnet_ids)
• count = var.vpc_cidr_block != null ? 1 : 0

count = var.istest == true ? 3 : 0

Terraform does not allow to use count inside module block.

resource "aws_instance" "dev" {
   ami = "ami-082b5a644766e0e6f"
   instance_type = "t2.micro"
   count = var.istest == true ? 3 : 0
}

variable "elb_names" {
  type = list
  default = ["dev-loadbalancer", "stage-loadbalanacer","prod-loadbalancer"]
}
 
resource "aws_iam_user" "lb" {
  name = var.elb_names[count.index]
  count = 2
  path = "/system/"
}

See also

• Terraform functions, Terraform collection functions: tolist, toset, length, sum, file, join, depends_on, zipmap, replace, lookup, read files, concat, merge, templatefile, for_each, format, element, slice, try, filebase64, upper, filemd5, coalesce, formatlist
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