file resource for nomad volume

[thatsk]

resource "nomad_volume" "mysql_volume" {
jobspec = file("${path.module}/volume.hcl")
}

is there way we can pass like this rather then defining into it.

[lgfa29]

Thanks for the idea @thatsk 🙂

Unfortunately this approach goes against the way Terraform works, and it has given a lot of headache in the nomad_job resource. Since all you're give to Terraform is a string, it can't actually compare its own local state and the remote state in Nomad to detect changes, which results in problems like #1 and prevents us from exposing values in the resource like in #125 (comment).

While I can see how it would be great to be able to use the same input in the nomad and terraform CLI the experience we had shows that it actually results in more problems than it's worth 😕