101 - Location

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Read the Docs

If you want to get a better idea about the object that we will be working with in this module, you can review the docs here:

• Region

• Folder

Objectives

The purpose of this short module is to introduce the concepts of "region" and "folder". We will describe how to select a deployment region and how to create a resource group to house all the created resources.

Location Terminology

AWS

Region (region)

A geographical location, comprising n number of availability zones, depending on the region.

Resource Group (folder)

A resource group is a logical grouping of resources. A resource group can only be part of one region, but a Region can have n number of resource groups. Resource groups are not default in AWS.

Azure

Key Location Concepts

Region Schema

With Tuono IaC we will select each region for both AWS and Azure to be a west coast region. us-west-2 is the AWS region and is located in US West (Oregon). For Azure westus2 is located in Washington. This region will be referenced as hands-on-lab-region.

  region:
    hands-on-lab-region:
      aws: us-west-2
      azure: westus2

Notice that we deviated from the cardinal directions for defining the regions used in several other Blueprints. This is preferred for European and Asian datacenters in particular where hard-coding the values can give increased clarity in terms of exactly where your infrastructure is deployed.

Folder Schema

We define the folder name as the variable resource_group.

  folder:
    (( resource_group )):
      region: hands-on-lab-region