Creating Filebeat configuration with Terraform

Question

I am trying to create a Filebeat configuration file after creating a instance with Terraform:

resource \"local_file\" \"greylogIP\" {
  content  = <

        

Answer 1

You need to escape a literal dollar ($) with a double dollar ($$).

The interpolation documentation covers this:

You can escape interpolation with double dollar signs: $${foo} will be rendered as a literal ${foo}.

There's some further mention of it in the template docs:

Important: Template variables in an inline template (such as consul_address above) must be escaped with a double-$. Unescaped interpolations will be processed by Terraform normally prior to executing the template.