Hi, we are back again. Previously, I created a simple Google Cloud VPC and then improved the configuration by introducing variables.

This time, I want to continue with another Terraform concept: outputs . But, we will not be using the previous code, because adding outputs for one vpc is too simple. So, I made the lab slightly more practical.

In this lab, I will create:

a custom VPC network

a subnet with a defined CIDR range

a small Compute Engine VM

Terraform outputs to query useful information after provisioning

The goal is to understand how Terraform outputs can expose important infrastructure data after resources are created.

Reference: Hasicorp website about gcp tutorial

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