By Marco Fedele
Hi, we are currently migrating the management of our infrastructure to Terraform.
While I’m translating the App config file to a Terraform one, I’ve found out some issues with Bindable Variables like APP_URL APP_DOMAIN that I referenced as "${APP_URL}"; writing it like that now throws an error when running terraform, but I didn’t found how to write it correctly.
Similary, Databases that I referenced as ${redis.REDIS_URL} or ${mongo.DATABASE_URL} not seem to work.
I found nothing in examples or documentation.
Can you help me? Thank you
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Accepted Answer
Hi there,
In Terraform, you can escape variable interpolation by using double dollar signs: $$. For example, in your case, to use the string ${mongo.DATABASE_URL} literally, you can escape the interpolation sequence like this: $${mongo.DATABASE_URL}.
That way Terraform will not look for that variable locally but the string will be sent to the App Platform API.
Let me know how it goes!
Best,
Bobby
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