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SatyaG
SatyaG

Reputation: 65

Load input file convert to custom array objects in Terraform

I have a situation where I want to load a custom-based file to memory and pass it as array to AWS resource.

Here is my file (this is not JSON)

abc.tmpl

{
 name="Mark"
 age="20"
},
{
 name="Steve"
 age="25"
}

apply the above values to one of the resources in the array below

module "elb" {
 custome_elb_settings = [
  {
   name="Mark"
   age="20"
  },
  {
   name="Steve"
   age="25"
  }
 ]
}

When I tried with template_file it loaded in plain text and loaded as 1 string with \n and escape chars in it.

Is there any way to load as objects from file or else convert string to array in Terraform

Thank you in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 996

Answers (1)

Kombajn zbożowy
Kombajn zbożowy

Reputation: 10703

Declare it as a variable:

variable "custome_elb_settings" {
  type = list(object({name=string,age=number}))
}

module "elb" {
  custome_elb_settings = var.custome_elb_settings
}

Then pass the value in the command line:

terraform apply -var custome_elb_settings="[ $(cat abc.tmpl) ]"

Upvotes: 1

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