A simple CLI that parses arbritrary JSON to the HCL format of tfvars files.

Installation

go get github.com/imjoshholloway/json2tfvars

Usage

Pipe some json in:

echo '{ "string": "value", "object": { "key": { "subkey": "value" }, "key2": { "subkey2": "value" } }}' | json2tfvars

string = "value"
object = { key = { subkey = "value" }, key2 = { subkey2 = "value" } }

Alternatively pass in a json file:

json2tfvars -source=path/to/file.json

Why is this needed?

In versions of [terraform][#terraform] below the currently unreleased 0.12 nested maps in json variable files are not parsed correctly. This utility converts json payloads to the tfvars format in order to work around this issue.

See: hashicorp/terraform#15549 for more information