I'm learning Terraform and trying to use it for provisioning a virtual machine in Proxmox and came across a issue where I want to add a second disk only on the first index of the count.

I've try adding size = count.index == 0 ? "50G" : null on the disk block but it doesn't work as the size parameter expects a value.

Here is my code:

resource "proxmox_vm_qemu" "workers" {
  count       = 2
  name        = "${local.vm_worker_name}-${count.index + 1}"
  target_node = local.target_node
  vmid        = "21${count.index}"

  agent   = 1
  os_type = "linux"
  onboot  = true
  cores   = 4
  sockets = 1
  memory  = 4046
  scsihw  = "virtio-scsi-pci"
  tags    = local.vm_worker_tags

  disks {
    virtio {
      virtio0 {
        disk {
            size    = "15G"
            storage = "local-lvm"
            backup  = true  
        }
      }
      virtio1 {
        disk {
            size    = count.index == 0 ? "50G" : "0"
            storage = "local-lvm"
            backup  = true  
        }
      }      
    }
    ide {
        ide0 {
            cdrom {
                iso = local.talos_linux_iso
            }
        }      
    }
  }  

  network {
    id = 0
    model  = "virtio"
    bridge = "vmbr0"
    tag    = "100"
  }

  ipconfig0 = "ip=dhcp"
}

So, how can I use an if/else statement to accomplish this?

I'm learning Terraform and trying to use it for provisioning a virtual machine in Proxmox and came across a issue where I want to add a second disk only on the first index of the count.

I've try adding size = count.index == 0 ? "50G" : null on the disk block but it doesn't work as the size parameter expects a value.

Here is my code:

resource "proxmox_vm_qemu" "workers" {
  count       = 2
  name        = "${local.vm_worker_name}-${count.index + 1}"
  target_node = local.target_node
  vmid        = "21${count.index}"

  agent   = 1
  os_type = "linux"
  onboot  = true
  cores   = 4
  sockets = 1
  memory  = 4046
  scsihw  = "virtio-scsi-pci"
  tags    = local.vm_worker_tags

  disks {
    virtio {
      virtio0 {
        disk {
            size    = "15G"
            storage = "local-lvm"
            backup  = true  
        }
      }
      virtio1 {
        disk {
            size    = count.index == 0 ? "50G" : "0"
            storage = "local-lvm"
            backup  = true  
        }
      }      
    }
    ide {
        ide0 {
            cdrom {
                iso = local.talos_linux_iso
            }
        }      
    }
  }  

  network {
    id = 0
    model  = "virtio"
    bridge = "vmbr0"
    tag    = "100"
  }

  ipconfig0 = "ip=dhcp"
}

So, how can I use an if/else statement to accomplish this?

• terraform
• conditional-statements

• The example from the code sets the value to "0", while the question states it does not work with null. So which of the two is not working? Both? – Marko E Commented Feb 7 at 12:19
• Yes, both doesn't work – kegham Commented Feb 7 at 12:22

1 Answer 1

In this case, using the dynamic block with for_each could do the trick. For example:

resource "proxmox_vm_qemu" "workers" {
  count       = 2
  name        = "${local.vm_worker_name}-${count.index + 1}"
  target_node = local.target_node
  vmid        = "21${count.index}"

  agent   = 1
  os_type = "linux"
  onboot  = true
  cores   = 4
  sockets = 1
  memory  = 4046
  scsihw  = "virtio-scsi-pci"
  tags    = local.vm_worker_tags

  disks {
    virtio {
     .
     .
     .
      
     dynamic "virtio1" {
       for_each = count.index == 0 ? [1] : []
       content {
         disk {
           size    = "50G"
           storage = "local-lvm"
           backup  = true  
         }
       }      
     }
    .
    .
    .
  }  

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}

However, I don't have a way to test this, so it may or may not work.