diff --git a/config/interpolate_funcs.go b/config/interpolate_funcs.go
index a91fb3fd7..c48152648 100644
--- a/config/interpolate_funcs.go
+++ b/config/interpolate_funcs.go
@@ -240,12 +240,18 @@ func interpolationFuncConcat() ast.Function {
 				// Otherwise variables
 				if argument, ok := arg.([]ast.Variable); ok {
 					for _, element := range argument {
-						finalListElements = append(finalListElements, element.Value.(string))
+						t := element.Type
+						switch t {
+						case ast.TypeString:
+							finalListElements = append(finalListElements, element.Value.(string))
+						default:
+							return nil, fmt.Errorf("concat() does not support lists of %s", t.Printable())
+						}
 					}
 					continue
 				}
 
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("arguments to concat() must be a string or list")
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("arguments to concat() must be a string or list of strings")
 			}
 
 			return stringSliceToVariableValue(finalListElements), nil
diff --git a/config/interpolate_funcs_test.go b/config/interpolate_funcs_test.go
index 3b2ea17cf..f4c527ebf 100644
--- a/config/interpolate_funcs_test.go
+++ b/config/interpolate_funcs_test.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"reflect"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/hashicorp/hil"
@@ -226,6 +227,40 @@ func TestInterpolateFuncConcat(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 }
 
+// TODO: This test is split out and calls a private function
+// because there's no good way to get a list of maps into the unit
+// tests due to GH-7142 - once lists of maps can be expressed properly as
+// literals this unit test can be wrapped back into the suite above.
+//
+// Reproduces crash reported in GH-7030.
+func TestInterpolationFuncConcatListOfMaps(t *testing.T) {
+	listOfMapsOne := ast.Variable{
+		Type: ast.TypeList,
+		Value: []ast.Variable{
+			{
+				Type:  ast.TypeMap,
+				Value: map[string]interface{}{"one": "foo"},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+	listOfMapsTwo := ast.Variable{
+		Type: ast.TypeList,
+		Value: []ast.Variable{
+			{
+				Type:  ast.TypeMap,
+				Value: map[string]interface{}{"two": "bar"},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+	args := []interface{}{listOfMapsOne.Value, listOfMapsTwo.Value}
+
+	_, err := interpolationFuncConcat().Callback(args)
+
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "concat() does not support lists of type map") {
+		t.Fatalf("Expected err, got: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestInterpolateFuncFile(t *testing.T) {
 	tf, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "tf")
 	if err != nil {