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  **DATA SOURCES (RO)** : Are more like to grab info. from existing, read-only stuff ( you can't always (actually, far from it) have the complete infrastructure in your tf templates, resources already exist and you don't have much control over them but you still need to use them inside your Terraform templates).
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+Do not confuse with data sources. Output comes from the successful creation of a thing (like the output of a module). Data is accessing a thing that already exists but isn't necessarily managed in this state. E.g. getting a vpc id when your networking layer is in a different terraform state,
   data "oci_identity_availability_domains" "test_availability_domains" {
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 **OUTPUTS**:
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+Do not confuse with data sources. Output comes from the successful creation of a thing (like the output of a module). Data is accessing a thing that already exists but isn't necessarily managed in this state. E.g. getting a vpc id when your networking layer is in a different terraform state,
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 Example1:  If you wanted to output the arn of the following resource in a module:

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