We are trying to create Terraform modules for below activities in AWS, so that we can use them where ever that is required.
- VPC creation
- Subnets creation
- Instance creation etc.
But while creating these modules we have to define the provider in all above listed modules. So we decided to create one more module for provider so that we can call that provider module in other modules (VPC, Subnet, etc.).
Issue in above approach is that it is not taking provider value, and asking for the user input for region.
Terraform configuration is as follow:
$HOME/modules/providers/main.tf
provider "aws" {
region = "${var.region}"
}
$HOME/modules/providers/variables.tf
variable "region" {}
$HOME/modules/vpc/main.tf
module "provider" {
source = "../../modules/providers"
region = "${var.region}"
}
resource "aws_vpc" "vpc" {
cidr_block = "${var.vpc_cidr}"
tags = {
"name" = "${var.environment}_McD_VPC"
}
}
$HOME/modules/vpc/variables.tf
variable "vpc_cidr" {}
variable "environment" {}
variable "region" {}
$HOME/main.tf
module "dev_vpc" {
source = "modules/vpc"
vpc_cidr = "${var.vpc_cidr}"
environment = "${var.environment}"
region = "${var.region}"
}
$HOME/variables.tf
variable "vpc_cidr" {
default = "192.168.0.0/16"
}
variable "environment" {
default = "dev"
}
variable "region" {
default = "ap-south-1"
}
Then when running terraform plan
command at $HOME/
location it is not taking provider value and instead asking for the user input for region.
I need help from the Terraform experts, what approach we should follow to address below concerns:
- Wrap provider in a Terraform module
- Handle multiple region use case using provider module or any other way.