AMI lookup data source example in Terraform - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to define a data source for the latest Amazon Linux 2 AMI.

Terraform

data "aws_ami" "example" {
  most_recent = true
  filter {
    name   = "name"
    values = ["[1]"]
  }
  owners = ["amazon"]
}

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Aubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-focal-20.04-amd64-server-*

Bamzn2-ami-hvm-2.0.*-x86_64-gp2

Cwindows/images/*

Dcentos/images/*

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using an AMI name pattern for a different OS like Ubuntu or CentOS.

Not including wildcards in the AMI name pattern.

The filter value must match the Amazon Linux 2 AMI name pattern to find the latest AMI.

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medium

Complete the code to reference the AMI ID from the data source in an EC2 instance resource.

Terraform

resource "aws_instance" "example" {
  ami           = [1]
  instance_type = "t2.micro"
}

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Aaws_instance.example.ami

Baws_ami.example.id

Cdata.aws_instance.example.ami

Ddata.aws_ami.example.id

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Referencing the resource instead of the data source.

Using incorrect attribute names.

The AMI ID is accessed from the data source using data.aws_ami.example.id.

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hard

Fix the error in the filter block to correctly filter AMIs by architecture.

Terraform

data "aws_ami" "example" {
  most_recent = true
  filter {
    name   = "architecture"
    values = ["[1]"]
  }
  owners = ["amazon"]
}

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Ax86_64

Bamd64

Cx64

Darm64

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using incorrect architecture strings like 'amd64' or 'x64'.

Confusing architecture with instance type.

The correct architecture value for Amazon Linux 2 AMIs is x86_64.

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hard

Fill both blanks to filter AMIs by name and virtualization type.

Terraform

data "aws_ami" "example" {
  most_recent = true
  filter {
    name   = "[1]"
    values = ["amzn2-ami-hvm-2.0.*-x86_64-gp2"]
  }
  filter {
    name   = "[2]"
    values = ["hvm"]
  }
  owners = ["amazon"]
}

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Aname

Bvirtualization-type

Carchitecture

Droot-device-type

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using wrong filter names like 'architecture' for the AMI name.

Confusing 'virtualization-type' with 'root-device-type'.

The first filter is by name and the second by virtualization-type to get the correct AMI.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a data source that filters AMIs by name, architecture, and owner.

Terraform

data "aws_ami" "example" {
  most_recent = true
  filter {
    name   = "[1]"
    values = ["amzn2-ami-hvm-2.0.*-x86_64-gp2"]
  }
  filter {
    name   = "[2]"
    values = ["[3]"]
  }
  owners = ["amazon"]
}

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Aname

Barchitecture

Cx86_64

Dvirtualization-type

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Mixing up filter names and values.

Using incorrect architecture values.

The filters are for name and architecture, with the architecture value x86_64.