Module Outputs

We’re familiar with the modules’ outputs, but in this lesson, we’ll look at the more nuanced use of outputs and their visibility to other modules.

Terraform outputs and module relationships become more important as our scripts become increasingly sophisticated.

A simple output module

While module inputs are defined with the variable keyword, outputs are defined with the output keyword. We’re going to type in another local module that outputs the filename of a local_file resource like this: