How does terraform handle booleans?

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What

• Document why in terraform booleans should be expressed as type string rather than type boolean.

Why

• The boolean default value true does not work consistently as expected and will in some cases be converted to false.

• Terraform recommends using explicit strings instead of boolean values

Although it appears Terraform supports boolean types, they are instead silently converted to string types. The implications of this are subtle and should be completely understood if you plan on using boolean values. It is instead recommended you avoid using boolean values for now and use explicit strings. A future version of Terraform will properly support booleans and using the current behavior could result in backward-incompatibilities in the future.

References

• https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/variables.html#booleans