How to run/execute a program from Terraform

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If you need to run a local application from your Terraform scripts, you can call out to the provisioner local-exec and issue the command syntax:

resource "null_resource" "dig-aoms" {
  provisioner "local-exec" {
    # define your command below
    # this can be any application available in your terminal/commandline, 
    # along with arguments
    command = "dig any andrewodendaal.com"
  }
}
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