Terraform remote state w/ vars

[gerardo...@renlearn.com]

I have the below code block in my main.tf file to enable remote state storage.

data "terraform_remote_state" "redshift-demo" {

    backend = "s3"

    config {

        bucket = "${var.s3}"

        key = "${var.s3_key}/${var.env}-state.tfstate"

        region = "${var.aws_region}"

    }

}

 I have a separate dev.tfvars file that has the variables defined as below.

# S3 Remote State Config

s3 = "my-bucket"

s3_key = "folder-name"

env = "dev"

aws_region = "us-west-2"

When I execute a terraform plan -var-file="dev.tfvars" I get the error below stating the variables are not defined. But I have defined them in the dev.tfvars files so not sure exactly whats missing.

 resource 'data.terraform_remote_state.redshift-test' config: unknown variable referenced: 's3'. define it with 'variable' blocks

* resource 'data.terraform_remote_state.redshift-test' config: unknown variable referenced: 's3_key'. define it with 'variable' blocks

* resource 'data.terraform_remote_state.redshift-test' config: unknown variable referenced: 'env'. define it with 'variable' blocks

* resource 'data.terraform_remote_state.redshift-test' config: unknown variable referenced: 'aws_region'. define it with 'variable' blocks

Thanks..

[James Turnbull]

Even if you have the variables in tfvars you still need to create
`variable` definitions for them:

variable s3 {}
variable s3_key {}
etc

Kind Regards

James Turnbull

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[gerardo...@renlearn.com]

Thanks that worked..