Terraform module - output variable as input for another module

Question

I am new to terraform and trying to build an infrastructure with two subnets and VPC. I have created two modules

• VPC
• subnet

The VPC module will create a VPC and will return vpc_id as output, the same return vpc_id I am trying to use in the subnet module, but when I run the terraform plan, it asks me for the enter vpc_id input.

I want the vpc_id from the output value of the VPC module, can anyone please help me on the same.

Below is the code,

root tf file,

 provider "aws" {
  shared_credentials_file = var.shared_cred
  profile                 = "default" 
  region                  = var.aws_region
}

module "vpc" {
  source = "./vpc"
  name   = "terraformVPC"
  cidr   = "10.50.40.0/27"
}

module "private_subnet" {
  source      = "./subnet"
  subnet_name = "private_subnet"
  subnet_cidr = "10.50.40.16/28"
  #VPC_id = aws_vpc.moduleVPC.id
  VPCid = module.vpc.outvpc_id # this is the issue
}

module "public_subnet" {
  source      = "./subnet"
  subnet_name = "public_subnet"
  subnet_cidr = "10.50.40.0/28"
  VPCid      = module.vpc.outvpc_id
}

Subnet resource

resource "aws_subnet" "module_subnet" {
  cidr_block = var.subnet_cidr
  vpc_id     = var.VPCid

  tags = {
    Name = var.subnet_name
  }
}

Subnet module variable declaration

variable "subnet_name" {
  description = " define th subnet name"
}

variable "subnet_cidr" {
  description = "define th subnet cidr block"
}

variable "VPCid" {
  description = "Assign VPC id to subnet"
}

VPC output

output "outvpc_id" {
  value = "${aws_vpc.moduleVPC.id}"
}

Answer 1

This is called " Module Composition ". The important thing to remember is that you reference outputs of another module.

The format is: module.<object-name>.<output-name>

module "network" {
  source = "./modules/aws-network"

  base_cidr_block = "10.0.0.0/8"
}

module "consul_cluster" {
  source = "./modules/aws-consul-cluster"

  vpc_id     = module.network.vpc_id       # < output of module.network
  subnet_ids = module.network.subnet_ids   # < output of module.network
}

Answer 2

When I use terraform for aws... My module name it's "network.ts" I don't think you need two tf files to manage your vpc and the subnets of that VPC.

network.tf

resource "aws_vpc" "vpc" {
  cidr_block           = "10.50.40.0/27"
  enable_dns_hostnames = true // only if you need
  tags                 = {
    Name = "desa-vpc-spotify" //Use your own name
  }
}

resource "aws_subnet" "private_subnet" {
  vpc_id            = aws_vpc.vpc.id
  availability_zone = "us-east-1a" //your own region
  cidr_block        = "10.50.40.16/28"
  tags = {
    Name = "desa-subnet-private-spotify"
  }
}

resource "aws_subnet" "public_subnet" {
  vpc_id            = aws_vpc.vpc.id
  availability_zone = "us-east-1a"//your own region
  cidr_block        = "10.50.40.0/28"
  tags = {
    Name = "desa-subnet-public-spotify"
  }
}

if you want vpc on another tf

(and if you want to have two files... only call the vpc like this)

another.tf

data "aws_vpc" "vpcs" {
  tags = {
    Name = "desa-vpc-spotify" //only put the name of the vpc of the network tf
  }
}

Answer 3

I notice that you have listed "VPCid =". When you run terraform validate does it throw an error? I would trying changing it to "vpc_id" instead and see if that works.

Answer 4

I think this can help you better achieve what you are trying to do:

Root.tf

module "vpc" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/vpc/aws"
  version = "3.14.0"

  name = var.vpc_name
  cidr = var.vpc_cidr

  azs             = var.vpc_azs
  private_subnets = var.vpc_private_subnets
  public_subnets  = var.vpc_public_subnets

  enable_nat_gateway = var.vpc_enable_nat_gateway

  tags = var.vpc_tags
}

module "ec2_instances" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/ec2-instance/aws"
  version = "3.5.0"
  count   = 2

  name = "my-ec2-cluster"

  ami                    = "ami-0c5204531f799e0c6"
  instance_type          = "t2.micro"
  vpc_security_group_ids = [module.vpc.default_security_group_id]
  subnet_id              = module.vpc.public_subnets[0]

  tags = {
    Terraform   = "true"
    Environment = "dev"
  }
}

var.tf

variable "vpc_name" {
  description = "Name of VPC"
  type        = string
  default     = "example-vpc"
}

variable "vpc_cidr" {
  description = "CIDR block for VPC"
  type        = string
  default     = "10.0.0.0/16"
}

variable "vpc_azs" {
  description = "Availability zones for VPC"
  type        = list(string)
  default     = ["us-west-2a", "us-west-2b", "us-west-2c"]
}

variable "vpc_private_subnets" {
  description = "Private subnets for VPC"
  type        = list(string)
  default     = ["10.0.1.0/24", "10.0.2.0/24"]
}

variable "vpc_public_subnets" {
  description = "Public subnets for VPC"
  type        = list(string)
  default     = ["10.0.101.0/24", "10.0.102.0/24"]
}

variable "vpc_enable_nat_gateway" {
  description = "Enable NAT gateway for VPC"
  type        = bool
  default     = true
}

variable "vpc_tags" {
  description = "Tags to apply to resources created by VPC module"
  type        = map(string)
  default = {
    Terraform   = "true"
    Environment = "dev"
  }
}

You can get more info from https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/module-use