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layout: "docs"
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page_title: "Using Modules"
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sidebar_current: "docs-modules-usage"
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description: Using modules in Terraform is very similar to defining resources.
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---
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# Module Usage
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Using modules in Terraform is very similar to defining resources:
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```shell
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module "consul" {
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source = "github.com/hashicorp/consul/terraform/aws"
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servers = 3
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}
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```
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You can view the full documentation for configuring modules in the [Module Configuration](/docs/configuration/modules.html) section.
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In modules we only specify a name rather than a name and a type (as in resources). This name can be used elsewhere in the configuration to reference the module and its variables.
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The existence of the above configuration will tell Terraform to create the resources in the `consul` module which can be found on GitHub at the given URL. Just like a resource, the module configuration can be deleted to remove the module.
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## Multiple instances of a module
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You can instantiate a module multiple times.
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```hcl
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# my_buckets.tf
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module "assets_bucket" {
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source = "./publish_bucket"
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name = "assets"
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}
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module "media_bucket" {
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source = "./publish_bucket"
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name = "media"
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}
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```
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```hcl
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# publish_bucket/bucket-and-cloudfront.tf
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variable "name" {} # this is the input parameter of the module
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resource "aws_s3_bucket" "the_bucket" {
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# ...
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}
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resource "aws_iam_user" "deploy_user" {
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# ...
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}
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```
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In this example you define a module in the `./publish_bucket` subdirectory. That module has configuration to create a bucket resource, set access and caching rules. The module wraps the bucket and all the other implementation details required to configure a bucket.
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We can then define the module multiple times in our configuration by naming each instantiation of the module uniquely, here `module "assets_bucket"` and `module "media_bucket"`, whilst specifying the same module `source`.
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The resource names in your module get prefixed by `module.<module-instance-name>` when instantiated, for example the `publish_bucket` module creates `aws_s3_bucket.the_bucket` and `aws_iam_access_key.deploy_user`. The full name of the resulting resources will be `module.assets_bucket.aws_s3_bucket.the_bucket` and `module.assets_bucket.aws_iam_access_key.deploy_user`. Be cautious of this when extracting configuration from your files into a module, the name of your resources will change and Terraform will potentially destroy and recreate them. Always check your configuration with `terraform plan` before running `terraform apply`.
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## Source
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The only required configuration key for a module is the `source` parameter. The value of this tells Terraform where the module can be downloaded, updated, etc. Terraform comes with support for a variety of module sources. These
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are documented in the [Module sources documentation](/docs/modules/sources.html).
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Prior to running any Terraform command with a configuration that uses modules, you'll have to [get](/docs/commands/get.html) the modules. This is done using the [get command](/docs/commands/get.html).
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```shell
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$ terraform get
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```
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This command will download the modules if they haven't been already.
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By default, the command will not check for updates, so it is safe (and fast) to run multiple times. You can use the `-update` flag to check and download updates.
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## Configuration
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The parameters used to configure modules, such as the `servers` parameter above, map directly to [variables](/docs/configuration/variables.html) within the module itself. Therefore, you can quickly discover all the configuration
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for a module by inspecting the source of it.
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Additionally, because these map directly to variables, module configuration can have any data type available for variables, including maps and lists.
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## Outputs
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Modules encapsulate their resources. A resource in one module cannot directly depend on resources or attributes in other modules, unless those are exported through [outputs](/docs/configuration/outputs.html). These outputs can be referenced in other places in your configuration, for example:
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```hcl
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resource "aws_instance" "client" {
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ami = "ami-408c7f28"
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instance_type = "t1.micro"
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availability_zone = "${module.consul.server_availability_zone}"
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}
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```
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This purposely is very similar to accessing resource attributes. Instead of mapping to a resource, however, the variable in this case maps to an output of a module.
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Just like resources, this will create a dependency from the `aws_instance.client` resource to the module, so the module will be built first.
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To use module outputs via command line you have to specify the module name before the variable, for example:
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```shell
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$ terraform output -module=consul server_availability_zone
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```
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## Plans and Graphs
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Commands such as the [plan command](/docs/commands/plan.html) and [graph command](/docs/commands/graph.html) will expand modules by default. You can use the `-module-depth` parameter to limit the graph.
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For example, with a configuration similar to what we've built above, here is what the graph output looks like by default:
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If instead we set `-module-depth=0`, the graph will look like this:
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Other commands work similarly with modules. Note that the `-module-depth` flag is purely a formatting flag; it doesn't affect what modules are created or not.
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## Tainting resources within a module
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The [taint command](/docs/commands/taint.html) can be used to _taint_ specific resources within a module:
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```shell
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$ terraform taint -module=salt_master aws_instance.salt_master
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```
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It is currently not possible to taint an entire module.
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