I'm trying to run a PowerShell script inside a terraform script. I tried to use the local-exec function but it throws the following error.
Error: Unknown root level key: provisioner
I have included the script below.
I would be glad if someone could provide me with a solution.
provisioner "local-exec" {
inline = ["powershell.exe -File C:\\Users\\Boopathi Kumar\\Downloads\\poscript1.ps1"]
}
Provisioners must be ran as part of a resource rather than a top level resource.
Normally this would be ran against an instance such as with the examples given in the above linked docs:
resource "aws_instance" "web" {
# ...
provisioner "local-exec" {
command = "echo ${self.private_ip} > file.txt"
}
}
Which writes the IP address of the instance to a file local to wherever Terraform is being ran.
If you don't have any link to a resource at all (you just want something to happen regardless of any resources changing) you can use the null_resource which is designed for this purpose.
As mentioned in the local-exec docs you can use it like this:
resource "null_resource" "example2" {
provisioner "local-exec" {
command = "Get-Date > completed.txt"
interpreter = ["PowerShell", "-Command"]
}
}
-Command with -File like you would when running it not in Terraform.