github.com/rstandt/terraform@v0.12.32-0.20230710220336-b1063613405c/website/docs/configuration/functions/merge.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "functions" 3 page_title: "merge - Functions - Configuration Language" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-collection-merge" 5 description: |- 6 The merge function takes an arbitrary number of maps and returns a single 7 map after merging the keys from each argument. 8 --- 9 10 # `merge` Function 11 12 -> **Note:** This page is about Terraform 0.12 and later. For Terraform 0.11 and 13 earlier, see 14 [0.11 Configuration Language: Interpolation Syntax](../../configuration-0-11/interpolation.html). 15 16 `merge` takes an arbitrary number of maps and returns a single map that 17 contains a merged set of elements from all of the maps. 18 19 If more than one given map defines the same key then the one that is later 20 in the argument sequence takes precedence. 21 22 ## Examples 23 24 ``` 25 > merge({"a"="b", "c"="d"}, {"e"="f", "c"="z"}) 26 { 27 "a" = "b" 28 "c" = "z" 29 "e" = "f" 30 } 31 ```