How to Use the If / Else Statement in Terraform — Examples

Jack Roper
CodeX
Published in
3 min readJan 3, 2023

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In this short article, we will take a look at the Terraform if statement (hint, it doesn’t exist) and look at a few examples. Let's dive in!

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If you are used to traditional programming languages such as C#, Python, Java, etc. you’ll be familiar with the concept of if / else statements. Terraform has no if or else statement, but instead uses ternary conditional…

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