Conditionals in Terraform

Just a quick cheat sheet to use when writing conditionals in Terraform.

In my role, I write a lot of Terraform but can go a few weeks in between. It’s handy to have a quick reference to look back at.

As AI coding companions improve, this will likely become less useful.

The Ternary Operator

As opposed to a traditional if statement, Terraform uses ternary operators for conditional expressions. A conditional expression uses the value of a boolean expression to select one of two values.