tencent cloud

Basic Type

A basic type is simple and not composed of any other types. All basic types in Terraform are represented by the type keyword. Available basic types include:

• string: represents a Unicode character sequence of some text (such as "hello").
• number: represents a number, which can be an integer or a decimal.
• bool: represents a Boolean value, which can be true or false.

Below is an example:

id = 123
vpc_id = "123"
status = true

Composite Type

A composite type is a set of values.

Collection type

A collection contains a set of values of the same type:

• list(...): is a sequence of values identified by consecutive integers starting from 0.
• map(...): is a set of values, each of which is identified by a string label.
• set(...): is a set of unique values.

Structure type

• object(...): is a custom type that contains its own named attributes.
• tuple(...): is a sequence of elements identified by consecutive integers starting from 0, where each element has its own type.

Special type

• null: an argument set to null is considered not entered. Terraform will automatically ignore the argument and use the default value.
• any: it is a very special type constraint in Terraform. It is not a type but simply a placeholder. Whenever a value is given a complex type constrained by any, Terraform will try to calculate the most accurate type to replace any.

Argument

Argument assignment means assigning a value to a specific argument, whose name can contain letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens and cannot begin with a digit, such as:

id = "123"

Block

A block is a container containing a set of arguments, such as:

resource "tencentcloud_instance" "foo" {
   tags                                    = {}
   vpc_id                                  = "vpc-5bt2ix8p"
}

Comment

Terraform supports the following three types of comments:

• #: a single-line comment followed by the comment content.
• //: a single-line comment followed by the comment content.
• /* and */: multi-line comments, which should be across multiple lines.