SUMMARY

Currently terraform doesnt allow some resource manipulations outside of it. But such manipulations will be convenient to use by other ansible code. A lookup plugin to pull the resource IDS generated by terraform will be useful to do that.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

terraform lookup plugin

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The lookup plugin would take the path to the terraform state file and the either the resource type or resource name or both and return the IDS for the matched parameters passed.

- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    content: "{{ lookup('terraform', resource_name='load_balancer', state_file='myproject/terraform.tfstate', resource_type='aws_lb') }}"
  tasks:
   - debug: msg = "The ID is {{ content }}"