Terraform functions: file

https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/functions/file.html

Official example:

> file("${path.module}/hello.txt")
Hello World

Errors

╷
│ Error: Invalid function argument
│
│   on main.tf line 151, in resource "aws_iam_policy" "ebs_csi_controller":
│  151:   policy      = file("${path.module}/policies/ebs_csi_controller_iam_policy.json")
│     ├────────────────
│     │ while calling file(path)
│     │ path.module is "."
│
│ Invalid value for "path" parameter: no file exists at
│ "./policies/ebs_csi_controller_iam_policy.json"; [[this function works only
│ with files that are distributed as part of the configuration source code]], so
│ if this file will be created by a resource in this configuration you must
│ instead obtain this result from an attribute of that resource.

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