Implement intermediate-variable module #1
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@josh-padnick Check out this new repo & module. The code is trivial, so I'm going to merge so I can use it ASAP for usage-patterns. Feedback welcome. |
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| ## Motivation | ||
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| Occasionally, in Terraform, you need a way to store an derived or intermediate value. If that value is a static string, |
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| However, there is no way to use a `template_file` to store an intermediate variable that's a list or a map. Until now. | ||
| Check out the [intermediate-variable examples](/examples/intermediate-variable) to see how. |
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Interesting use case. It's still a little unclear why you need interpolation in a list or map, so it may be worth going one step further under Motivation and explaining a use case that needs this.
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I've expanded the README to explain more: 0fce49b
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This PR adds a simple module that returns as output the exact variables you pass to it as inputs. This gives you a way to store intermediate values that contain interpolations.
I needed to use this module in several places in
usage-patternsand it doesn’t seem to fit in any existing place. I’ve created similar “utility” modules like this in the past and always shoved them into random places. I figure this repo can be a home for this sort of code in the future. We could probably open source this module...