How do I produce a map of vpc-ids & subnets with data source?

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Hello,

I am trying to use the following data source, it produces the output I want but it is a nested map with the “filter” parameters which has each of the individual vpc id’s along with the “ids” which are the actual subnet-id’s associated with that vpc.

data "aws_subnets" "eks_subnets" {
for_each = var.eks_vpc_map

filter {
name = "vpc-id"
values = ["${each.value.eks_vpc_id}"]
}
}

How do I transform this into a simple map which is defined like this?

vpc_id=“string”
subnets_ids=list of all subnet ids

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Hi @njnerd!

The design of this data source unfortunately makes this a bit awkward, because the VPC ID is not a first-class argument but instead just one of many possible filter block names. That means it’s kinda bothersome to obtain that single VPC ID value from just the data.aws_subnets.eks_subnets mapping.

However, since the instance keys of data.aws_subnets.eks_subnets are guaranteed to match the keys of your var.eks_vpc_map you can cross-reference with the original map to more easily recover the VPC ID belonging to a particular key, like this:

locals {
  vpcs = tomap({
    for k, result in data.aws_subnets.eks_subnets : k => {
      vpc_id     = var.eks_vpc_map[k].eks_vpc_id
      subnet_ids = result.ids
    }
  })
}

With the declaration above I think local.vpcs will be a map value shaped like you want, where the keys are all the same keys from var.eks_vpc_map and the values are all objects with vpc_id and subnet_ids attributes.

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Thank you @apparentlymart that was super helpful!