How to generate terraform module

gen_module.tf

variable "module_dir" {
  default = "module"
}
locals {
  file_list = [
    "provider.tf",
    "main.tf",
    "versions.tf",
    "variables.tf",
    "outputs.tf",
    "README.md"
  ]
  module_dir = "${path.root}/${var.module_dir}"
}

resource "local_file" "module" {
  count    = length(local.file_list)
  filename = "${local.module_dir}/${local.file_list[count.index]}"
}

gen_terraform_module.md

Generate Terraform Module

1. install terraform
2. copy gen_module.tf to your folder
3. run terraform init there
4. run terraform apply -auto-approve there
5. make some changes
6. install terraform-docs like brew install terraform-docs
7. generate README.md file for fun terraform-docs markdown table --output-file README.md --output-mode inject /path/to/module

Have fun!