{"id":7523,"date":"2019-10-30T05:46:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T05:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=7523"},"modified":"2021-11-16T05:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:30:08","slug":"terraform-error-invalid-variable-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/terraform-error-invalid-variable-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Terraform Error: Invalid variable name"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"JavaScript\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"javascript\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-javascript\"><span class=\"hljs-built_in\">Error<\/span>: Invalid variable name\n\n  on github_resources.tf line <span class=\"hljs-number\">7<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> variable <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"count\"<\/span>:\n   <span class=\"hljs-number\">7<\/span>: variable <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"count\"<\/span> {\n\nThe variable name <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"count\"<\/span> is reserved due to its special meaning inside <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">module<\/span>\nblocks.<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">JavaScript<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">javascript<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p><strong>Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&nbsp;must&nbsp;not&nbsp;use&nbsp;following&nbsp;variables.&nbsp;These&nbsp;names&nbsp;are&nbsp;reserved&nbsp;for&nbsp;meta-arguments&nbsp;in&nbsp;module&nbsp;configuration&nbsp;blocks,&nbsp;and&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;be&nbsp;declared&nbsp;as&nbsp;variable&nbsp;names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>source<\/li><li>version<\/li><li>providers<\/li><li>count<\/li><li>for_each<\/li><li>lifecycle<\/li><li>depends_on<\/li><li>locals<\/li><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"epyt-gallery\" data-currpage=\"1\" id=\"epyt_gallery_68408\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_97548\"  width=\"760\" height=\"427\"  data-origwidth=\"760\" data-origheight=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  data-epytgalleryid=\"epyt_gallery_68408\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><div class=\"epyt-gallery-list\"><div>Sorry, there was a YouTube error.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solution You&nbsp;must&nbsp;not&nbsp;use&nbsp;following&nbsp;variables.&nbsp;These&nbsp;names&nbsp;are&nbsp;reserved&nbsp;for&nbsp;meta-arguments&nbsp;in&nbsp;module&nbsp;configuration&nbsp;blocks,&nbsp;and&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;be&nbsp;declared&nbsp;as&nbsp;variable&nbsp;names. source version providers count for_each lifecycle depends_on locals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terraform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25347,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions\/25347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}