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Tagging in Terraform on AWS — Merging maps and inline tags!
May 12, 2020
How to use a terraform map of tags and combine it with an inline tag?
For example, we have a tag called Name, for an AWS Elastic IP.
Name = ${var.host}-cluster_ipWe also have a definition of local values as follows:
Define the tags in the resource as follows to combine the 2…
tags = “${merge(map(“Name”, “${var.host}-cluster_ip”,), local.extra_tags)}”This technique can be used to merge multiple maps and tags read in from other files, e.g. a ‘global_settings’ block that can be defined at the root module level.
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