Hi The docs over at https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/providers.html state: You can use expressions in the values of these configuration arguments, but can only reference values that are known before the configuration is applied. This means you can safely reference input variables, but n…

Hi @lijok , The effect of what you wrote here is that if you do an initial terraform plan, before any of these objects have been created, Terraform will tell the Grafana provider that the auth argument is “unknown” during planning. For many providers, that would lead to an error because they need to…

Thanks @apparentlymart , that makes sense Looking at the graph produced by terraform graph | dot -Tsvg > graph.svg, which I attached, am I understanding correctly that the dag is interpreting the dependencies of this config correctly, so it would be safe for me to use this kind of configuration? […

Hi @lijok , A subtlety to know about if you are interpreting the graph output is that this only reflects the sequence of actions for a particular sub-operation (by default, as in this case, the creation of a plan). It doesn’t represent the full set of actions required to create a plan and apply it, …

Thank you, that’s very insightful I think I’ll be able to run with that then to solve this issue Thanks again

Variables in provider config

Terraform

apparentlymart Split this topic October 29, 2021, 7:25pm 6

A post was split to a new topic: What can a provider developer assume about provider configuration arguments derived from other resource attributes?

Topic		Replies	Views
What can a provider developer assume about provider configuration arguments derived from other resource attributes? Plugin Development	0	422	October 29, 2021
Error: Invalid provider configuration reference Terraform	3	3100	June 29, 2022
Terraform Graph Evaluation Terraform	2	365	June 30, 2021
Provider configuration through interpolation Terraform helm	2	8493	April 12, 2021
Provider Configuration not present error HCP Terraform	1	443	December 8, 2021

Variables in provider config

Related topics