Please instead of doing negative voting, kindly read complete problem first.
Hi I am new to terraform. I have 3 modules in terraform.
/module1/eip/main.tf
/module1/eip/output.tf
/module2/eip/main.tf
/module2/eip/output.tf
/module3/eip/main.tf
/module3/eip/output.tf
These all 3 modules create an eip along with showing it in outputs.
From main.tf on root level i am using these functions like this.
module "module-one-eip" {
source = "./modules/module1/eip/"
instance = module.ec2-for-one-module.ec2-one-id
}
module "module-two-eip" {
source = "./modules/module2/eip/"
instance = module.ec2-for-two-module.ec2-two-id
}
module "module-three-eip" {
source = "./modules/module3/eip/"
instance = module.ec2-for-three-module.ec2-three-id
}
Now I want to remove repetitive files and I want to use one file for all modules, like all code from these 3 will reside in one file, and all outputs mentioned above will have in same file, but main problem here is how I will handle different instance variable data being passed and how it will be synced with right code section in same file.
/module/generic-eip/main.tf
/module/generic-eip/outputs.tf
and from main.tf I want to call it like this.
module "module-generic-eip" {
source = "./modules/generic-eip/"
instance = (how to manage different instance names for same file)
}
I know there is for_each and count stuff of terraform, problem is internal configurations are diffrent, i mean how i can make dynamic naming as well.
inside ./modules/eip/main.tf
resource "aws_eip" "(how to manage different names here)" {
instance = var.instance
vpc = true
}
Assuming you keep your inctance module separate, and only want to consolidate EIP module, it would be as follows:
locals {
instance_ids = [module.ec2-for-one-module.ec2-one-id,
module.ec2-for-two-module.ec2-two-id,
module.ec2-for-three-module.ec2-three-id]
}
module "module-generic-eip" {
source = "./modules/generic-eip/"
count = length(local.instance_ids)
instance = local.instance_ids[count.index]
}
Code inside ./modules/eip/main.tf
does not change, as for each iteration of count
, var.instance
will be a single element from local.instance_ids
.
Then you access, individual EIPs, using indieces, 0
, 1
, 2
:
module.module-generic-eip[0]
module.module-generic-eip[1]
module.module-generic-eip[2]