Today I was casually connecting two Terraform Cloud Workspaces using the tfe_outputs data source
data "tfe_outputs" "infrastructure" {
organization = "Client"
workspace = "monitoring"
}The “infrastructure” workspace exposes outputs that we want to use in the “monitoring” workspace.
Imagine my confusion when the data source content was empty! No helpful errors in the plan whatsoever.
# resource.tf
locals {
aws_lb_ecs_services_name = data.tfe_outputs.infrastructure.nonsensitive_values.aws_lb_ecs_services_name
}
resource "datadog_dashboard" "aws_alb" {
title = "AWS ALB: ${local.aws_lb_ecs_services_name}"
# ...
}To debug the issue I’ve switched to terraform_remote_state and found that the importing Workspace had no access to the exporting one.
The solution was as simple as configuring the sharing following the docs
