Terraform: read files

# test.tf
output "text" {
 value = file("${path.module}/text.txt")
}

Related terms

• Terraform examples
• Terraform activities

See also

• Terraform functions, Terraform collection functions: tolist, toset, length, sum, file, join, depends_on, zipmap, replace, lookup, read files, concat, merge, templatefile, for_each, format, element, slice, try, filebase64, upper, filemd5, coalesce, formatlist, flatten
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