Hi all, I have a question on datasources/templates I have this datasource defined:

settings:

templates:

settings:

gomplate:

datasources:

env:

url: "stacks/data/{{ .vars.environment }}.yaml"

And I use it as described in the documentation: `ami: '{{

{{ (index (datasource "env").ami .vars.aws_region) }}

}}'` It works great if

aws_region

contains directly a

string

value but is not working if it reference another variable, for example

aws_region: {{ .vars.region }}

I have templates evaluation set to 3 and as far as I understood, in the first evaluation

aws_region

should be resolved to the actual value of

region

and

ami

to

'{{ (index (datasource "env").ami .vars.aws_region) }}'

so in the second evaluation it should be evaluated correctly with the value originally contained into

region

. Am I assuming something wrong? Is there any way to make it works if I'm doing something wrong? Thanks in advance

Can we take a step back and first understand what you want to accomplish before we evaluate the proposed solution?

Thanks for the answer. What I would like to achieve is to have a dynamic aws_region variable that changes value depending on the content of another variable. For example something like:

aws_region:

'{{ if and .vars.disaster_recovery.enabled }}

{{- .vars.disaster_recovery.target_region -}}

{{ else }}

{{- .vars.disaster_recovery.original_region -}}

{{ end }}'

This works if I use aws_region with !terraform.state but not with datasources.