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# ionoscloud\_servers

Retrieves a list of IONOS CLOUD Servers

The **Servers data source** can be used to search for and return existing servers based on filters used.

## Example Usage

### By Name

```hcl
data ionoscloud_servers example {
  datacenter_id = ionoscloud_datacenter.example.id
  filter {
    name = "name"
    value = "server_name_to_look_here"
  }
}
```

### By CPU Family

```hcl
data ionoscloud_servers example {
  datacenter_id = ionoscloud_datacenter.example.id
  filter {
    name = "cpu_family"
    value = "INTEL_XEON"
  }
}
```

### By Name and Cores

```hcl
data ionoscloud_servers example {
  datacenter_id = ionoscloud_datacenter.example.id
  filter {
    name = "name"
    value = "test"
  }
  filter {
    name = "cores"
    value = "1"
  }
}
```

## Argument Reference

* `datacenter_id` - (Required) Name of an existing datacenter that the servers are a part of
* `filter` - (Optional) One or more name/value pairs to filter off of. You can use most base fields in the [server](/cloud/tools-terraform/docs/resources/server.md) resource. These do **NOT** include nested fields in nics or volume nested fields.

`datacenter_id` must be provided. If `datacenter_id` is missing , the datasource will return an error.

**NOTE:** Lookup by filter is partial. Searching for a server using filter name and value `test`, will find all servers that have `test` in the name. For example, it will find servers named `test`, `test1`, `testsomething`.

**NOTE:** You cannot search by `image_name` by providing an alias like `ubuntu`.

## Attributes Reference

The following attributes are returned by the datasource:

* `servers` - list of servers that matches the filters provided. For a full reference of all attributes returned, check out [documentation](/cloud/tools-terraform/docs/resources/server.md)


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