File provisioner inside a module doesn't support relative path?

[aleybovich]

inside a module I have the following resource:

provisioner "file" {
      source      = "${path.module}/../../../elastic-search-schema/indices/"
      destination = "~/indices"
  }

Where ${path.module} is /Users/user/dev/search-config/terraform-templates/env-dev/search-elastic/.terraform/modules/8c670c9637338be7fc134e420c6ec98b, which is a link to /Users/leyboan1/dev/search-config/terraform-templates/modules/search-elastic; I want that source to be /Users/user/dev/search-config/elastic-search-schema/indices.

When executing it I am getting an error:

module.search-elastic.null_resource.search-es: Provisioning with 'file'...
Releasing state lock. This may take a few moments...
Error applying plan:

1 error(s) occurred:

* module.search-elastic.null_resource.search-es: 1 error(s) occurred:

* Upload failed: open /Users/user/dev/search-config/terraform-templates/env-dev/search-elastic/elastic-search-schema/indices/appstore_applications.json: no such file or directory

It incorrectly expands source path (${path.module}/../../../elastic-search-schema/indices/) as /Users/user/dev/search-config/terraform-templates/env-dev/search-elastic/elastic-search-schema/indices/ when it should be /Users/user/dev/search-config/elastic-search-schema/indices/appstore_applications.json

When I output ${path.module}/../../../elastic-search-schema/indices/ as a variable, it correctly shows /Users/leyboan1/dev/search-config/terraform-templates/env-dev/search-elastic/.terraform/modules/8c670c9637338be7fc134e420c6ec98b/../../../elastic-search-schema/indices which points to the correct folder /Users/leyboan1/dev/search-config/elastic-search-schema/indices/

Any ideas?

[mharm001]

this issue is causing ugly workarounds where we need to keep track of where the location where the module is called from.

Any updates?

[webchi]

Still can't copy folders to instances in 2018. This not work:

provisioner "file" {
    source     = "${path.module}/../shared/conf/"
    destination = "/tmp/"
  }

Upload failed: open /home/icha1/project/corecoin/tf-consul/.terraform/modules/shared/conf/consul.firewalld.xml: no such file or directory

But this is ok

  provisioner "file" {
    source     = "${path.module}/../shared/conf/consul.firewalld.xml"
    destination = "/tmp/consul.firewalld.xml"
  }

[hashibot]

Hello! 🤖

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