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polo
polo

Reputation: 385

Alternative conditional statement to "count" in terraform

I have a aws resource that i only want to be built in the production environment. Usually i would use something like this:

count = var.environment == "production" ? 1 : 0

However, as per the terraform documentation, count is not supported when used in a module for versions of terraform lower than 13. ("Module support for count was added in Terraform 0.13, and previous versions can only use it with resources.")

I am using terraform 12 and the resource is coming from a module and so I would like a different conditional statement that will only build the resource in production but not sure what else there is other than the count function

Upvotes: 2

Views: 17583

Answers (1)

Helder Sepulveda
Helder Sepulveda

Reputation: 17584

Here is more details on my comments:

Here is my test module "policies", code is something like:

variable "foo" {
  type = number
}

resource "aws_iam_policy_attachment" "policy_abc" {
  count = var.foo
  ...
}

resource "aws_iam_policy_attachment" "policy_def" {
  count = var.foo
  ...
}

calling the module

module "bar" {
  source = "../modules/policies"

  foo = var.environment == "production" ? 1 : 0
  ...
}

Upvotes: 2

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