Terraform : passing variables from resource to cloudinit data block

Terraform Terraform Cloud & Enterprise
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I’d like to dynamically pass the variable count.index from an instance resource to a cloud_init data block. This index aims to set the instance hostname.

Here is the data block :

data "template_file" "script" {
  template = "${file("${path.module}/templates/init.yml")}"
  vars = {
    username = "${var.username}"
    private_key = "${var.ssh_private_key}"
    public_key = "${var.ssh_public_key}"
    aws_access_key_id = "${var.aws_access_key_id}"
    aws_secret_access_key = "${var.aws_secret_access_key}"
    aws_session_token = "${var.aws_session_token}"
    aws_region = "${var.aws_region}"
    ips = "10.0.1.0/24"
    dbpasswd = "abc123"
    hname = "${var.hostname}"
  }
}

data "template_cloudinit_config" "config" {
  gzip          = true
  base64_encode = true
  part {
    content_type = "text/cloud-config"
    content      = "${data.template_file.script.rendered}"
  }
}

And here the resource :

resource "aws_instance" "controller" {
  count = var.count_clt
  ami           = data.aws_ami.centos.id
  instance_type = var.itype
  key_name = var.keyname
  user_data = var.cloudinit_config
  network_interface {
    network_interface_id = aws_network_interface.controller.id
    device_index         = 0
  }
  tags = {
    Name ="egu-${var.hostname_prefix}-${count.index + 1}"
  }
}

I’m wondering whether it’s some how possible to pass variable at line user_data which actually contains data.template_cloudinit_config.config.rendered

Thanks.

2

I figured out.

I generate n template_cloudinit_config.config data and pick up one with count.index in the resource.

Here is the code :

data "template_file" "script" {
  template = "${file("${path.module}/templates/init.yml")}"
  count = var.count_clt
  vars = {
    username = "${var.username}"
    private_key = "${var.ssh_private_key}"
    public_key = "${var.ssh_public_key}"
    aws_access_key_id = "${var.aws_access_key_id}"
    aws_secret_access_key = "${var.aws_secret_access_key}"
    aws_session_token = "${var.aws_session_token}"
    aws_region = "${var.aws_region}"
    ips = "10.0.1.0/24"
    dbpasswd = "abc123"
    hname = "${var.hostname_prefix}-${count.index + 1}"
  }
}

data "template_cloudinit_config" "config" {
  gzip          = true
  base64_encode = true
  count = var.count_clt
  part {
    content_type = "text/cloud-config"
    content  = element(data.template_file.script.*.rendered, count.index)
  }
}

resource "aws_instance" "controller" {
  count = var.count_clt
  ami           = data.aws_ami.centos.id
  instance_type = var.itype
  key_name = var.keyname
  user_data = element(data.template_cloudinit_config.config.*.rendered, count.index)

  network_interface {
    network_interface_id = aws_network_interface.controller[count.index].id
    device_index         = 0
  }

  tags = {
    Name = element(local.hostsnames,count.index)
  }
}