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Have you used it since they introduced HCL2? It supports other data structures much better than it used to. Maps, lists, sets, etc. are much easier to work with

• throwaway894345 5y ago
  Still a far cry away from a proper programming language, which is what we need. For example, if you want to loop over some config and generate a resource for each config, but the resources need different providers (e.g., different AWS accounts) then you just can't do it. Further, if you just want a little function, you have to build a fully fledged module. Then there are the crazy namespaces (`var`, `local`, `resource`, `module`, etc).
  • clipradiowallet 5y ago
    Yes you can... assuming your config is a map, include a key for "provider", and set it appropriately. EG in your example for multiple AWS accounts, define providers aliased as `aws.account1`, `aws.account2`, and so on. Reference those provider aliases in your map you are iterating through, and set the provider to that value.
    • throwaway894345 5y ago
      I'm 99% sure that will fail with an error because "provider" can't be set dynamically. See this issue, for example: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/24476 https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/24476