Tfvars: Seed
The terraspace seed command creates starter tfvars files for you. It does this by evaluating your variables.tf file.
Examples
$ terraspace seed network
Seeding tfvar files for network
create app/stacks/network/tfvars/dev.tfvars
$
app/stacks/network/tfvars/dev.tfvars:
# Required variables:
project = "string"
region = "string"
cidr_block = "string"
secondary_cidr_block = "string"
# Optional variables:
# name_prefix = "string"
To create starter tfvars file for a different environment, use TS_ENV. Example:
$ TS_ENV=prod terraspace seed network
Seeding tfvar files for network
create app/stacks/network/tfvars/prod.tfvars
$
Providing Example Values
You can provide example starter values by providing them in the description. Anything after the IE: or Example: text is used as the starter value. Here’s an example:
variable "cidr_block" {
description = "VPC CIDR. IE: 10.0.0.0/16"
type = string
}
The terraspace seed command will produce:
# Required variables:
cidr_block = "10.0.0.0/16"
The code self-documents the starter variables!
Where Option
By default, the seed command detects where the module came from IE: the app/stacks or app/modules folder. Based on this, it will generate starter files within the app or seed folder with a preference to the app folder per TFVars Docs.
You can override this with the --where option. Example:
$ terraspace seed network --where seed
Seeding tfvar files for network
create seed/tfvars/stacks/network/dev.tfvars
$
Parsing Errors
In order to generate the tfvars file, terraspace parses the variables.tf file. The parser may not always parse HCL successfully. In this case, you will receive an error message, and you will have to create the tfvars file manually.
Improvements to the parsing library are welcomed. Here is the library used boltops-tools/hcl_parser.
