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conditional expression

Learn conditional expression in Terraform through a focused explanation, a topic-specific example, an engineering warning, and a mastery check.

12 min read • Intermediate
terraform-010.tf
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locals { instance_type = var.environment == "prod" ? "t3.large" : "t3.micro" }
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