Unknown variable errors in atlas on terraform push

[ocxo]

I've tried setting aws key vars set in terraform.tfvars, variables.local.tf but I get the following error after a terraform push -name foo/bar triggers a plan execution.

Plan execution has failed

The plan encountered an errored while executing 2 minutes ago. Plans do not modify real infrastructure, so this failure is safe. The error is shown below.

There are warnings and/or errors related to your configuration. Please
fix these before continuing.

Errors:

  * module root: 4 error(s) occurred:

* resource 'aws_instance.nat' config: unknown variable referenced: aws_key_name
* provider config 'aws': unknown variable referenced: aws_access_key
* provider config 'aws': unknown variable referenced: aws_secret_key
* resource 'aws_instance.bastion' config: unknown variable referenced: aws_key_name

I've also tried terraform push -name foo/bar -var "aws_secret_key=foo" and get the same error.

I'm running Terraform v0.4.1.

[ocxo]

The vars are set on Atlas

[mitchellh]

I clarified the error message, but you need to define the variables with `variable.

[ocxo]

@mitchellh Thanks but I don't think this is resolved or I'm misunderstanding something key about Terraform/Atlas variables. The variables were defined in a variable block but the ones that were missing in Atlas were the vars I defined in variables.local.tf (and had them .gitignored since they are sensitive).

I found that by moving those sensitive vars to variables.tf, Atlas now picks them up. Is this a bug in Atlas? Terraform can handle variables.local.tf fine locally but fails with the same var config on Atlas.

According to Terraform's variable docs, I think this should have worked:

Note that the file can be named anything, since Terraform loads all files ending in .tf in a directory.

[mitchellh]

@fromonesrc If it is ignored by git, it won't be uploaded with terraform push, You can use -vcs=false to upload all files.

[jayjhan8]

I'd recommend this bit represented in the docs. I followed the recommendation in ignoring my terraform.tfvars but I wasn't sure why my variables weren't being set in the run development in Atlas.

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