» alicloud_zones

This data source provides availability zones that can be accessed by an Alibaba Cloud account within the region configured in the provider.

» Example Usage

# Declare the data source
data "alicloud_zones" "zones_ds" {
  "available_instance_type" = "ecs.n4.large"
  "available_disk_category" = "cloud_ssd"
}

# Create an ECS instance with the first matched zone
resource "alicloud_instance" "instance" {
  availability_zone = "${data.alicloud_zones.zones_ds.zones.0.id}"

  # Other properties...
}

» Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

• available_instance_type - (Optional) Filter the results by a specific instance type.
• available_resource_creation - (Optional) Filter the results by a specific resource type. Valid values: Instance, Disk, VSwitch, Rds, KVStore, FunctionCompute, Elasticsearch, Slb.
• available_disk_category - (Optional) Filter the results by a specific disk category. Can be either cloud, cloud_efficiency or cloud_ssd.
• multi - (Optional, type: bool) Indicate whether the zones can be used in a multi AZ configuration. Default to false. Multi AZ is usually used to launch RDS instances.
• instance_charge_type - (Optional) Filter the results by a specific ECS instance charge type. Valid values: PrePaid and PostPaid. Default to PostPaid.
• network_type - (Optional) Filter the results by a specific network type. Valid values: Classic and Vpc.
• spot_strategy - - (Optional) Filter the results by a specific ECS spot type. Valid values: NoSpot, SpotWithPriceLimit and SpotAsPriceGo. Default to NoSpot.
• output_file - (Optional) File name where to save data source results (after running terraform plan).
• enable_details - (Optional, Available in 1.36.0+) Default to false and only output id in the zones block. Set it to true can output more details.

» Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported in addition to the arguments listed above:

• ids - A list of zone IDs.
• zones - A list of availability zones. Each element contains the following attributes:
  • id - ID of the zone.
  • local_name - Name of the zone in the local language.
  • available_instance_types - Allowed instance types.
  • available_resource_creation - Type of resources that can be created.
  • available_disk_categories - Set of supported disk categories.
  • multi_zone_ids - A list of zone ids in which the multi zone.
  • slb_slave_zone_ids - A list of slb slave zone ids in which the slb master zone.