github.com/wikibal01/hashicorp-terraform@v0.11.12-beta1/website/docs/commands/output.html.markdown (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "docs" 3 page_title: "Command: output" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-commands-output" 5 description: |- 6 The `terraform output` command is used to extract the value of an output variable from the state file. 7 --- 8 9 # Command: output 10 11 The `terraform output` command is used to extract the value of 12 an output variable from the state file. 13 14 ## Usage 15 16 Usage: `terraform output [options] [NAME]` 17 18 With no additional arguments, `output` will display all the outputs for 19 the root module. If an output `NAME` is specified, only the value of that 20 output is printed. 21 22 The command-line flags are all optional. The list of available flags are: 23 24 * `-json` - If specified, the outputs are formatted as a JSON object, with 25 a key per output. If `NAME` is specified, only the output specified will be 26 returned. This can be piped into tools such as `jq` for further processing. 27 * `-state=path` - Path to the state file. Defaults to "terraform.tfstate". 28 Ignored when [remote state](/docs/state/remote.html) is used. 29 * `-module=module_name` - The module path which has needed output. 30 By default this is the root path. Other modules can be specified by 31 a period-separated list. Example: "foo" would reference the module 32 "foo" but "foo.bar" would reference the "bar" module in the "foo" 33 module. 34 35 ## Examples 36 37 These examples assume the following Terraform output snippet. 38 39 ```hcl 40 output "lb_address" { 41 value = "${aws_alb.web.public_dns}" 42 } 43 44 output "instance_ips" { 45 value = ["${aws_instance.web.*.public_ip}"] 46 } 47 ``` 48 49 To list all outputs: 50 51 ```shell 52 $ terraform output 53 ``` 54 55 To query for the DNS address of the load balancer: 56 57 ```shell 58 $ terraform output lb_address 59 my-app-alb-1657023003.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com 60 ``` 61 62 To query for all instance IP addresses: 63 64 ```shell 65 $ terraform output instance_ips 66 test = [ 67 54.43.114.12, 68 52.122.13.4, 69 52.4.116.53 70 ] 71 ``` 72 73 To query for a particular value in a list, use `-json` and a JSON 74 command-line parser such as [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/). 75 For example, to query for the first instance's IP address: 76 77 ```shell 78 $ terraform output -json instance_ips | jq '.value[0]' 79 ```