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Troubleshooting a Terraform Cycle Error
This lab will demonstrate how to troubleshoot a Terraform cycle error. You will attempt to go through the different stages of deployment to try and deploy the configuration and work through the cycle error until you have successfully deployed the resources.
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Challenge
Initialize Your Working Directory
- In the terminal, once logged in to your instance, change to the
terraform
directory. - In the
terraform
directory, edit themain.tff
file and add in yourami
,subnet_id
, andvpc
from theresource_ids.txt
file. - Run the
terraform fmt
command. - Initialize the working directory.
- In the terminal, once logged in to your instance, change to the
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Challenge
Fix the Cycle Error
- After running the
terraform init
command, you should get an error. Read the error and go to the line in themain.tf
file where the error is. - Fix the cycle error you get due to the security groups expecting the other to be already created.
- Check the formatting of your code, and then initialize your working directory again. If the error is fixed, move on to the next step in your deployment.
- After running the
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Challenge
Deploy Your Resources
Once you have worked past the error and successfully inilized your working directory, validated your code, and ran the plan, deploy your resources.
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