Get_Outputs.md

How to Get Values from output GCP

Goes over how to extract values from terraform state file

Table of Contents

1. Requirements
2. Get terraform outputs

Get terraform outputs

The terraform output command is used to extract the value of an output variable from the state file. Terraform documentation can be found here

Go into the directory with the main.tf and terraform.tfstate to run the terraform output command. Add -json parameter for a more readable output.

terraform output -json

Example

terraform output -json
{
  "Access_Key": {
    "sensitive": false,
    "type": "string",
    "value": "projects/gcp-project-123/hmacKeys/GOOG1EC62JWZUXHHAQ3GRARQS4G2E3DASPOBYFAKEACCESSKEYID"
  },
  "Secret_Key": {
    "sensitive": true,
    "type": "string",
    "value": "7BIaBemdMkG/8zxLMcU+mgYFAKESECRETKEYID"
  },
  "bucket_names": {
    "sensitive": false,
    "type": "string",
    "value": "fake-bucket-name-1"
  }
}
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• Access_Key an identifier for the resource with format projects/{{project}}/hmacKeys/{{access_id}}
• Secret_Key HMAC secret key material. Note: This property is sensitive and will not be displayed in the plan.
• bucket_names The list of names for the buckets created