Your developers are facing a lot of problem while writing complex expressions involving difficult interpolations . They have to run the terraform plan every time and check whether there are errors , and also check terraform apply to print the value as a temporary output for debugging purposes.
What should be done to avoid this?

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Your developers are facing a lot of problem while writing complex expressions involving difficult interpolations . They have to run the terraform plan every time and check whether there are errors , and also check terraform apply to print the value as a temporary output for debugging purposes.

What should be done to avoid this?

Accepted Answer

Use  terraform  console command to have an interactive UI with full access to the underlying  terraform  state to run your interpolations , and debug at real-time.

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Add a breakpoint in your code, using the watch keyword , and output the value to console for temporary debugging.

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Use  terraform  console command to have an interactive UI , but you can only use it with local state , and it does not work with remote state.

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Use  terraform  zipmap function , it will be able to easily do the interpolations without complex code.

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