Terraform - cannot source module from github

Question

I am trying to source a terraform module from github like so:

module "example" {
  source = "https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-example-module.git?ref=master"
  example = "Hello world!"
}

When I run terraform init, I get the following error:

Error: Failed to download module

Could not download module "example" (main.tf:6) source code from
"https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-example-module.git?ref=master": error
downloading
'https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-example-module.git?ref=master': no
source URL was returned

I confrimed that the repo does infact exist.. what am I missing?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65856078/terraform-cannot-source-module-from-github

Answer 1

There shouldn't be https:// at the beginning. So it should be:

module "example" {
  source  = "github.com/cloudposse/terraform-example-module.git?ref=master"
  example = "Hello world!"
}