IaC Core

The dependency graph

Lesson 3 of 5

References between resources create implicit dependencies; Terraform builds a DAG from them and orders create, update, and destroy operations accordingly.

What you'll learn

See how attribute references create implicit dependencies
Understand Terraform's resource graph as a DAG
Know why ordering (and parallelism) falls out of topological sort

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