A round trip

Figure 1072. Minimal Terraform configuration Slide presentation 
# Define Hetzner cloud provider
terraform {
  required_providers {
    hcloud = {
      source = "hetznercloud/hcloud"
    }
  }
  required_version = ">= 0.13"
}

# Configure the Hetzner Cloud API token
provider "hcloud" {
  token = "your_api_token_goes_here"
}

# Create a server
resource "hcloud_server" "helloServer" {
  name         = "hello"
  image        =  "debian-13"
  server_type  =  "cx23"   
}

Figure 1073. Terraform init Slide presentation 
$ terraform init

Initializing the backend...

Initializing provider plugins...
- Finding latest version of hetznercloud/hcloud...
- Installing hetznercloud/hcloud v1.46.1...
- Installed hetznercloud/hcloud v1.46.1 (signed by a HashiCorp partner, key ID 5219EACB3A77198B)

...
Terraform has created a lock file .terraform.lock.hcl to record the provider
selections it made above.  ...

Figure 1074. Terraform plan Slide presentation 
$ terraform plan

Terraform used the selected providers to generate the following execution plan. Resource actions ...
  + create

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # hcloud_server.helloServer will be created
  + resource "hcloud_server" "helloServer" {
      + allow_deprecated_images    = false
      + backup_window              = (known after apply)
  ...
    }

Plan: 1 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.

Figure 1075. Terraform apply Slide presentation 
terraform apply
...
Plan: 1 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.

Do you want to perform these actions?
  Terraform will perform the actions described above.
  Only 'yes' will be accepted to approve.

  Enter a value: yes

hcloud_server.helloServer: Creating...
hcloud_server.helloServer: Still creating... [10s elapsed]
hcloud_server.helloServer: Creation complete after 14s [id=45822789]

Apply complete! Resources: 1 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Figure 1076. Local resources' state Slide presentation
Resource list Selected resource's properties 
$ terraform state list
hcloud_server.helloServer
 
$ terraform state show hcloud_server.helloServer
resource "hcloud_server" "helloServer" {
    firewall_ids               = []
    id                         = "166290307"
    image                      = "debian-13"
    ipv4_address               = "2.29.10.236"
    ipv6_address               = "2a01:4f9:c015:5ae7::1"
    ipv6_network               = "2a01:4f9:c015:5ae7::/64"
    location                   = "hel1"
    name                       = "hello"
    primary_disk_size          = 40
    server_type                = "cx23"
    status                     = "running"
      ...
}

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