Escaping quotes in Terraform

I had a slightly tricky issue recently whereby I needed to use a JQ expression as part of a local-exec. The JQ expression needed quotes however Terraform wasn’t happy with them. It was a simple case of escaping with backslashes.

resource "null_resource" "confluent-kafka-env" {
  provisioner "local-exec" {
    when = "destroy"
    command = "ccloud environment list -o json | jq '.[] | select(.name | contains(\"${var.env-name}\")) .id'"
  }
  provisioner "local-exec" {
    command = "ccloud environment create ${var.env-name} -o json >> env_id.json"
  }
}