tongueroo / infra-malform-output

example for debugging

Terraspace Malform Output Debugging

Example project to debug: https://community.boltops.com/t/troubleshooting-error-stack-module-not-found/671

There's an intentional bug with the output helper in this code to see what happens when there's an invalid stack used in the output helper.

The code has an intentional error. It should be <%= not <=

app/stacks/a1/tfvars/base.tfvars

length1 = <= output("b1.makebelieveoutput") %>

The makebelieveoutput does not exist. Only the pet and length outputs exist.

$ cat app/stacks/b1/outputs.tf
output "pet" {
  description = "pet"
  value       = random_pet.this.id
}
output "length" {
  description = "length"
  value       = 2
}
$

Debugging Session

$ terraspace all up -y
Building one stack to build all stacks
Building .terraspace-cache/us-west-2/dev/stacks/b1
Downloading tfstate files for dependencies defined in tfvars...
Built in .terraspace-cache/us-west-2/dev/stacks/b1
Running:
    terraspace up b1 # batch 1
    terraspace up a1 # batch 2
Batch Run 1:
Running: terraspace up b1 Logs: log/up/b1.log
terraspace up b1:  No changes. Infrastructure is up-to-date.
terraspace up b1:  Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.
Batch Run 2:
Running: terraspace up a1 Logs: log/up/a1.log
terraspace up a1:  Error: Invalid value for input variable
Error running: terraspace up a1. Check logs and fix the error.
$ cat .terraspace-cache/us-west-2/dev/stacks/a1/1-base.auto.tfvars
length1 = "(Output makebelieveoutput was not found for the a1 tfvars file. Either b1 stack has not been deployed yet or it does not have this output: makebelieveoutput)"
$