Terraform-provider-aws: A managed resource "aws_secretsmanager_secret_version" "db_password" has not been declared in the root module.

[cirsrejoe]

Attempting to use AWS secrets manager and jsondecode throws the following errors:

on rds.tf line 27, in resource "aws_db_instance" "dev-test":
27: username = jsondecode(aws_secretsmanager_secret_version.db_password.secret_string)["username"]

on rds.tf line 28, in resource "aws_db_instance" "dev-test":
28: password = jsondecode(aws_secretsmanager_secret_version.db_password.secret_string)["password"]

This is defined at the top of the very same Terraform file as:
data "aws_secretsmanager_secret_version" "db_password" {
secret_id = "secret-name"
}

Terraform v0.12.18

When using this with Terraform 11 and without jsondecode I was able to pull the required secret from AWS without any problems.

[blckct]

You access the data resources by putting "data." before the name: data.aws_secretsmanager_secret_version

[cirsrejoe]

This solved the problem for me. The examples in all the documentation I found on this did not show the data. before as indicated here. Thank you.

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