[Enhancement]: aws_s3_object content attribute with ignore_changes

[skeggse]

Description

Provide the content of an aws_s3_object resource as an attribute. This would let us manage an aws_s3_object resource in one place, and consume the content provided by an external system via the object.

The alternative would be to have a resource and a data source for the same object, which means that the first apply wouldn't work due to the object not existing yet.

Affected Resource(s) and/or Data Source(s)

• aws_s3_object resource

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "aws_s3_object" "example" {
  bucket = "example"
  key    = "example.json"

  content      = jsonencode([])
  content_type = "application/json"

  lifecycle {
    ignore_changes = [content, metadata]
  }
}

# If something else changes the content of the S3 object, this should be different on next plan/apply.
output "s3_content" {
  value = aws_s3_object.example.content
}

References

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