{"id":7528,"date":"2019-10-30T05:59:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T05:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=7528"},"modified":"2021-11-16T05:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:28:34","slug":"terraform-error-invalid-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/terraform-error-invalid-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"Terraform Error: Invalid reference"},"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 reference\n\n  on github_resources.tf line <span class=\"hljs-number\">20<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> resource <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"github_repository\"<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"web\"<\/span>:\n  <span class=\"hljs-number\">20<\/span>:   name        = <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"${reponame}\"<\/span>\n\nA reference to a resource type must be followed by at least one attribute\naccess, specifying the resource name.\n<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">JavaScript<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">javascript<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Declare\u00a0variable\u00a0with\u00a0var.\u00a0such\u00a0as\u00a0name\u00a0=\u00a0&#8220;${var.reponame}&#8221;\u00a0instead\u00a0of\u00a0name\u00a0=\u00a0&#8220;${reponame}&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"epyt-gallery\" data-currpage=\"1\" id=\"epyt_gallery_20519\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_84613\"  width=\"760\" height=\"427\"  data-origwidth=\"760\" data-origheight=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  data-epytgalleryid=\"epyt_gallery_20519\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><div class=\"epyt-gallery-list\"><div>Sorry, there was a YouTube error.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solution: Declare\u00a0variable\u00a0with\u00a0var.\u00a0such\u00a0as\u00a0name\u00a0=\u00a0&#8220;${var.reponame}&#8221;\u00a0instead\u00a0of\u00a0name\u00a0=\u00a0&#8220;${reponame}&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7528","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\/7528","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=7528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25343,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions\/25343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}