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Share your story βDay 46: Read Existing Infrastructure with Terraform Data Sources
Data sources let you reference infrastructure that exists outside your Terraform configuration without importing it.
# Look up the latest Ubuntu AMI
data "aws_ami" "ubuntu" {
most_recent = true
owners = ["099720109477"] # Canonical
filter {
name = "name"
values = ["ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-jammy-22.04-amd64-server-*"]
}
}
# Look up an existing VPC by tag
data "aws_vpc" "shared" {
filter {
name = "tag:Name"
values = ["shared-vpc"]
}
}
# Use data source attributes in resources
resource "aws_instance" "web" {
ami = data.aws_ami.ubuntu.id
instance_type = "t3.micro"
subnet_id = data.aws_vpc.shared.id
}
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