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I tried to get started on some things I haven't touched before. I have used AWS Cloud Formation, but never really touched Terraform before. These labs aren't very long. Building the .tf file seems very similar when creating cloud formation .yaml templates. The only thing I noticed is, I seemed to bog down on creating a custom provider in the Go language. I haven't used this before so the function definitions and some of the decorators are foreign to me.
The * and & in this function layout is completely new and i'm highly compelled to drop everything and attempt to learn the entire Go language. But I'm not sure if it's required for the Certification. Also, the map[string]* is another thing I'm fighting the urge to Google.
func main() {
plugin.Serve(&plugin.ServeOpts{
ProviderFunc: func() terraform.ResourceProvider {
return Provider()
},
})
}
func resourceServer() *schema.Resource {
return &schema.Resource{
Create: resourceServerCreate,
Read: resourceServerRead,
Update: resourceServerUpdate,
Delete: resourceServerDelete,
Schema: map[string]*schema.Schema{
"address": &schema.Schema{
Type: schema.TypeString,
Required: true,
},
},
}
}
Maybe one of you can explain to me some real world examples of using a custom provider to help understand the use case in Terraform.
- LAB Complete - A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs
- Created our Certification Journey Post (This Post)
- LAB Complete -Deploy Kubernetes Load Balancer Service with Terraform
- Attempted Lab... HTTPS Content-Based Load Balancer with Terraform
- The Lab Broke..
- LAB Complete -HTTPS Content-Based Load Balancer with Terraform
- LAB Complete -Modular Load Balancing with Terraform - Regional Load Balancer
I still haven't made the study guide. Apparently I'm waiting until day 2 to make an official study guide identifying my skill gaps. Tomorrow, I'll post the study guide considering I find one that goes in detail by resource. If anyone has created one already, please link it in here.
Also, please take a look at my other post. If you have any videos that are relevant to this certification, please link them in that post. I believe that will be you giving back to the community for eons.
