Get ansible_ resources from multiple Remote state

Having terraform configuration in different directories/account for secuirity/sepration o duty or something else, can be useful terraform inventory allow to read states from other directories out of the main as current or defined by ANSIBLE_TF_DIR.

E.g. gathering ansible configuration from multimple remote state (multiple directoies in ANSIBLE_TF_DIR), to work like multiple terraform_remote_state in terraform:

data "terraform_remote_state" "dir1" {...}
data "terraform_remote_state" "dir2" {...}
...
data "terraform_remote_state" "dirn" {...}

Every directory will have its backend with aws connection config ti allow this design, probably.

[Roxyrob]

I think It is the same. Before you can pull terraform state, you need to know where the state is and how to have access to it. If not on local disk backend.tf (for any remote state configuration) is what allow your script to pull state.

I’ll give a try to multiple inventory “as scripts” using different env var.

I want to thank you for this dynamic inventory script and the terraform ansible provider (a great solution).

[nbering]

I think the script read backend.tf to get tfstate with ansible_ configuration right?

To clarify this point… no the script does not try to parse any Terraform files. It calls terraform state pull and reads STDOUT to get the state as JSON, letting Terraform figure out where to get the state data from. That way, we can support all remote state providers with zero work from the inventory script.