Availability zones data source in Terraform - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to fetch availability zones in the current region.

Terraform

data "aws_availability_zones" "available" {
  state = "[1]"
}

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Aenabled

Bactive

Cavailable

Dpresent

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using incorrect state values like 'active' or 'enabled' which are invalid.

The state attribute must be set to available to fetch zones that are currently available.

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medium

Complete the code to output the list of availability zone names.

Terraform

output "az_names" {
  value = data.aws_availability_zones.available.[1]
}

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Anames

Bids

Czone_ids

Dzones

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Common Mistakes

Using 'zones' or 'ids' which are not valid attributes for names.

The names attribute returns the list of availability zone names.

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hard

Fix the error in the data source block to correctly filter zones by state.

Terraform

data "aws_availability_zones" "filtered" {
  state = "[1]"
}

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Aenabled

Bavailable

Cpresent

Dactive

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Common Mistakes

Using invalid state values like 'enabled' or 'active' causes errors.

The correct state filter value is available to get usable availability zones.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a data source that fetches only available zones and outputs their count.

Terraform

data "aws_availability_zones" "example" {
  state = "[1]"
}

output "az_count" {
  value = length(data.aws_availability_zones.example.[2])
}

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Aavailable

Bnames

Czones

Dactive

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Common Mistakes

Using 'active' as state or 'zones' as attribute causes errors.

Set state to available to get usable zones, and use names to count them.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a data source fetching available zones, output their names, and output their count.

Terraform

data "aws_availability_zones" "all" {
  state = "[1]"
}

output "all_az_names" {
  value = data.aws_availability_zones.all.[2]
}

output "all_az_count" {
  value = length(data.aws_availability_zones.all.[3])
}

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Aavailable

Bnames

Dactive

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'active' as state or wrong attributes for outputs.

Use available for state, and names for both outputs to list and count zones.