Add support for global variables
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dmlemos commented
Motivation
I tend to use a main.hcl
file and from there call all the necessary modules.
Given
main.hcl
param "cred_user" {}
param "cred_password" {}
module "<src>" "setup_x" {
params = {
cred_user = "{{param `cred_user`}}"
cred_password = "{{param `cred_password`}}"
}
}
module "<src>" "setup_y" {
cred_user = "{{param `cred_user`}}"
cred_password = "{{param `cred_password`}}"
}
...
In order for this to work as of 0.6.0
I need to pass all the parameters required by the modules every time.
When there are quite a few modules it is cumbersome to keep specifying the same parameters.
Modest proposal
main.hcl
#Option 1
param "global" "cred_user" {}
param "global" "cred_password" {}
...
#Option 2
param "cred_user" {
type = "global"
}
param "cred_password" {
type = "global"
}
...
module "setup_x" {}
module "setup_y" {}
...