The terraform.tfvars contains personal settings and should not be included in the repository.
For default values, we can use the default field when declaring the variable instead of putting them in terraform.tfvars
Next we add terraform.tfvars to gitignore (and delete the committed version) so we keep a clean status (git status should be clean most of the time) and avoid accidentally adding it back.
We can provide a terraform.example.tfvars which is a file that will not be loaded automatically and we put examples there. That is not so important as the variables file has nice descriptions, but can be added if you think its a nice touch.
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variable.tfterraform.tfvars(and commit deletion)/terraform/terraform.tfvarsto.gitignoreterraform.example.tfvarsExplanation
The
terraform.tfvarscontains personal settings and should not be included in the repository.For default values, we can use the
defaultfield when declaring the variable instead of putting them interraform.tfvarsNext we add
terraform.tfvarsto gitignore (and delete the committed version) so we keep a clean status (git statusshould be clean most of the time) and avoid accidentally adding it back.We can provide a
terraform.example.tfvarswhich is a file that will not be loaded automatically and we put examples there. That is not so important as the variables file has nice descriptions, but can be added if you think its a nice touch.