[feature] Direct support of referencing tfstate files in s3 buckets

[recollir]

Right now one needs to reference to the local file containing the s3 reference

Remote backends like S3 is also supported. When a remote backend is used in your terraform workspace, there should be a local file at ./terraform/terraform.tfstate that contains the reference to the backend.

Since that file might live in different directories for different developers and might not be available at all in a ci/cd environment it would be nice to be able to refer to the S3 backend directly from with in the reference. As tfstate-lookup also supports direct lookup in S3 buckets like in

tfstate-lookup -s s3://name-of-s3-bucket/path/to/the/tfstatefile aws_route53_record.foo_db_public_record_bar.name

So something like

echo 'foo: ref+s3tfstate://name-of-s3-bucket/path/to/the/tfstatefile#/aws_route53_record.foo_db_public_record_bar.name' | vals eval -f -

would be nice to have. Would it even be possible to add the aws profile that should be used for this? And have vals do the 'magic' of accessing it?

echo 'foo: ref+s3tfstate://name-of-s3-bucket/path/to/the/tfstatefile?profile=name-of-aws-profile#/aws_route53_record.foo_db_public_record_bar.name' | vals eval -f -

[aston-r]

I also interested in this feature. I use terragrunt with remote state and I can no specify the path to tfstatefile, since the terragrunt stores it in the tmp folder that is dynamic....