Getting the vpc_id in an aws_instance module

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Hi,

I’m stuck with creating an aws_instance via a module I created.
I did setup the VPC already, which also uses a module. Now I’d like to create an AWS Instance in that VPC but I can’t figure out how to get the vpc_id that is needed for creation.

Following is the hierarchy of my terraform files

.
|-- dev
|   `-- custXX
|       |-- services
|       `-- vpc
|-- modules
|   |-- ec2_service
|   |   |-- 01-main.tf
|   |   |-- 98-outputs.tf
|   |   `-- 99-variables.tf
|   `-- vpc
|       |-- main.tf
|       |-- outputs.tf
|       `-- variables.tf

The running vpc comes from dev/custXX/vpc
the aws instance comes from dev/custXX/services/admin-host

In the terraform config for the new host I have added a data source as follows

data "terraform_remote_state" "vpc" {
  backend = "s3"
  config = {
    bucket = "tfstate-dev"
    key    = "dev/custxx/vpc/terraform.tfstate"
    region = var.region
  }
}

which gets read but it doesn’t seem to have a vpc_id. Sorry, I can’t get my head around that for days.

Cheers

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Okay, it was my fault. I rthought that I would have to define a variable ‘vpc_id’ as well and that’s why I got errors.
To get the vpc_id one has to use

output "vpc_id" {
  value = module.vpc.vpc_id
}

Sorry for the noise.

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