I'm having issue with accessing my data "terrafrom_remote_state
" objects..
So I'm following the hashicorp site to deploy azure resource with terraform cloud with run triggers. The trigger is working , running the plan for the second workspace, but it can't access the data i'm passing through the outputs.
I have set the "state" for the first workspace to be shared, and set the run trigger on the second workspace to be triggered by the 1st. No issues here.
I have tried to follow what is on the hasicorp site, but it is for aws so, maybe for azure I have missed something. I will post my outputs , then some code for the second workspace.
Ouputs : which i have looked at in the statefile and look good.
output "rgName" {
description = "The resource group for resources"
value = var.rgName
}
output "location" {
description = "The location for resources"
value = var.location
}
output "subnet1_id" {
description = "subnet 1"
value = azurerm_subnet.subnet1.id
}
2nd workspace
data "terraform_remote_state" "network" {
backend = "remote"
config = {
organization = "Awesome-Company"
workspaces = {
name = "TFCloud-Trigger-Network"
}
}
}
provider "azurerm" {
version = "2.66.0"
subscription_id = var.subscription_id
client_id = var.client_id
client_secret = var.clientSecret
tenant_id = var.tenant_id
features{}
}
#Deploy Public IP
resource "azurerm_public_ip" "pip1" {
name = "TFC-pip1"
location = data.terraform_remote_state.network.outputs.location
resource_group_name = data.terraform_remote_state.network.outputs.rgName
allocation_method = "Dynamic"
sku = "Basic"
}
#Create NIC
resource "azurerm_network_interface" "nic1" {
name = "TFC-TestVM-Nic"
location = data.terraform_remote_state.network.outputs.location
resource_group_name = data.terraform_remote_state.network.outputs.rgName
ip_configuration {
name = "ipconfig1"
subnet_id = date.terraform_remote_state.network.outputs.subnet1_id
private_ip_address_allocation = "Dynamic"
public_ip_address_id = azurerm_public_ip.pip1.id
}
}
The error is
Error: Unsupported attribute │ │ on main.tf line 26, in resource "azurerm_public_ip" "pip1": │ 26: location = data.terraform_remote_state.network.outputs.location │
├──────────────── │ │ data.terraform_remote_state.network.outputs is object with no attributes │ │ This object does not have an attribute named "location".
I can't access the data.terraform_remote_state.network.outputs
So, I figured this out and it is not in the documentation. A workspace that is a triggered by another workspace will not automatically update it's terrafrom plan.
Normally when I edit the code in github (or another repo) terraform cloud will automatically run a plan once you have saved that new code. A workspace that is triggered by another will not do that. So, even though I changed the code, I had to manually go to TF Cloud discard the current run on that triggered workspace, and re-run the plan. After this, the run trigger would successfully run.
It was a weird thing...