unit tests fail in chapter 7 about terraform-up-and-running-code HOT 5 CLOSED

Terraform is 0.14.9.

That's the problem. As is written in every README (example) and mentioned multiple times in the book, the code samples in the book were tested with Terraform 0.12. Each new version of Terraform introduces backwards incompatible changes; for example, 0.14 changed the format of the terraform output command, which is why you're seeing double quotes in weird places, and the test is not working.

In the future, I'll update all the examples to the latest version of Terraform: hopefully, when 1.0 comes out, and they begin to maintain backwards compatibility. But for now, if you want to run the examples as-is, you'll need to use Terraform 0.12.

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url := fmt.Sprintf("http://%s", strings.Trim(albDnsName, """))

Thank you.

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HTTP GET to URL http://"hello-world-example-64083979.eu-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com" returned an error: Get "http://"hello-world-example-64083979.eu-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com"": dial tcp: lookup "hello-world-example-64083979.eu-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com": no such host. Sleeping for 10s and will try again.

Those double quotes look wrong. What version of Terraform and Terratest are you using?

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Hi, I pinned the Terratest version to v0.15.9 as per the book and Terraform is 0.14.9.

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To make the code work with Terraform v1.05 I had to add the strings package and change the url variable like so:

url := fmt.Sprintf("http://%s", strings.Trim(albDnsName, "\""))

That get's rid of the double quotes

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