How can I create nested resources in Terraform?

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I would like to first create a Digital Ocean droplet(server) and then create multiple docker containers for various services inside that server.

I feel like this should be easy but I cannot find any examples of others doing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jamie · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-24 11:56:00Z

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You cannot really nest resources like that in Terraform. You have a two different ways to approach this, I would use the user_data argument that will run a script on your droplet that will issue the docker commands to pull down your container images and start your containers. Here is a blog post with an example.

Hope this helps.

answered Oct 24, 2018 at 11:56

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Zacharius Over a year ago

I was afraid that might be the answer. Thanks Jamie.

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