Add Data to a Json File in Terraform
I Am Not a Software Guy, but I Am Preparing a Small Script for Delarative Onboarding Work Using Terraform. the Declaration Is in a Json File and It Is Send to...
I am not a software guy, but I am preparing a small script for delarative onboarding work using terraform. The declaration is in a json file and it is send to the device through terraform. But I do not want to keep the sensitive data like passwords and secret keys in the json file. I want to inject them from a seperate file in a vault to the json file when I am executing it in terraform. I can use terraform to read the data from a vault or a s3 bucket, but I am not sure how to add it to the json declaration. I saw in terraform there is a functions like jsondecode and jsonencode. But I am not sure whether they will be any use to my requirement. Could someone help me on this please ?
Thansk.
1 Answer
Maybe this is something which could help you? Create a data source which loads your template file, here you can pass in some vars.
some examples for variales:
data "template_file" "my_template" {
template = templatefile("template.json", {
foo = "bar"
another_foo = aws_s3_bucket.my_bucket.id
more_foo = var.my_variable
})
}
The template file could look like this:
{
"Value": "123",
"value_2": "${foo}",
"value_3": "${another_foo}",
"value_4": ${more_foo},
}
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