Terraform function: slice

• https://www.terraform.io/language/functions/slice

slice extracts some consecutive elements from within a list.

https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-eks/blob/master/examples/complete/main.tf

locals {
  name   = "ex-${replace(basename(path.cwd), "_", "-")}"
  region = "eu-west-1"

  vpc_cidr = "10.0.0.0/16"
  azs      = slice(data.aws_availability_zones.available.names, 0, 3)

  tags = {
    Example    = local.name
    GithubRepo = "terraform-aws-eks"
    GithubOrg  = "terraform-aws-modules"
  }
}

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