Template Provider

The template provider exposes data sources to use templates to generate strings for other Terraform resources or outputs.

Use the navigation to the left to read about the available data sources.

Example Usage

# Template for initial configuration bash script
data "template_file" "init" {
  template = "${file("init.tpl")}"
  vars = {
    consul_address = "${aws_instance.consul.private_ip}"
  }
}

# Create a web server
resource "aws_instance" "web" {
  # ...

  user_data = "${data.template_file.init.rendered}"
}

Deprecation

The template provider is deprecated and the provider has been archived in accordance with HashiCorp's provider archiving process. While released versions of the provider will remain available, we recommend that you replace usages of this provider as follows.

template_file

For Terraform 0.12 and later, the template_file data source has been superseded by the templatefile function, which can be used directly in expressions without creating a separate data resource.

template_dir

The hashicorp/dir/template module offers an improved version of the functionality available in template_dir.

template_cloudinit_config

This resource has been moved to a new provider, terraform-provider-cloudinit as cloudinit_config, with no change in functionality.