Let terraform plan output rendered templates

[hashibot]

This issue was originally opened by @llarsson as hashicorp/terraform#8669. It was migrated here as part of the provider split. The original body of the issue is below.

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I use templates to generate user-data for my instances. As part of terraform plan, I care much more about what values the bootscript will be rendered with, rather than the template I passed in.

Could we get that as part of the output (possibly instead of merely echoing the template)?

[alex-derzhi-sp]

We similarly use template_file to generate ECS Task Definitions and need to have the resulting rendered template show in the plan output so that it can be properly peer-reviewed.

[ozbillwang]

Same here with ECS task definition that every time, when deploy new task definition with template_file data source, I can't see the differences, it is too inconvenience.

[ozbillwang]

my problem is fixed after use latest aws provider

[ryanking]

@ozbillwang what version?

[ozbillwang]

terraform provider aws v1.6.0

[ingshtrom]

I'm still having this problem and I see it's open without comments or years... Is there a workaround?

[dhawal55]

We have a similar use-case and would like terraform plan to show any diff in template_file's rendered content. This is used to set user_data in aws_launch_configuration resource which doesn't show the diff in content