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terraform	Provider: Terraform	docs-terraform-index	The Terraform provider is used to access meta data from shared infrastructure.

Terraform Provider

The terraform provider provides access to outputs from the Terraform state of shared infrastructure.

Use the navigation to the left to read about the available data sources.

Example Usage

# Shared infrastructure state stored in Atlas
data "terraform_remote_state" "vpc" {
  backend = "atlas"

  config {
    name = "hashicorp/vpc-prod"
  }
}

resource "aws_instance" "foo" {
  # ...
  subnet_id = "${data.terraform_remote_state.vpc.subnet_id}"
}