Local Values in Terraform

Mastering Local Values in Terraform: A Practical Guide

When you first start working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), your primary goal is usually to make your infrastructure dynamic. You learn how to use variables to pass in different values for different environments, such as staging versus production. However, as your configuration grows in complexity, you will inevitably run into a problem: you find yourself repeating the same logic, the same string concatenations, or the same complex calculations over and over again.