Customizing Terraform Input

Question

I have to take 7 inputs from the user in Terraform. Each time when i take input, it shows "Enter a value", which will give user a little confusion.

Can i change "Enter a Value" to my custom like "Enter AWS Region" and so on?

Answer 1

Use an argument "description" inside your variable declaration block. It is used to give a human-friendly description for that variable which is primarily for documentation for users using your Terraform configuration. Terraform will prompt the description when asking to input value.

variable "bucket_name"{
    description = "A cool name for your bucket."
    type = "string"
}

Answer 2

您可以使用bash在terraform周围添加bash包装器，并在调用terraform命令之前定义一些TF_VAR_name变量。