Terraform timestamp() to numbers only string

Question

The timestamp() function in the interpolation syntax will return an ISO 8601 formatted string, which looks like this 2019-02-06T23:22:28Z. However, I want to have a

Answer 1

This answer just shows an example of @BMW's answer which wasn't obvious to someone that's new to Terraform.

$ cat main.tf
locals {
  timestamp = "${timestamp()}"
  timestamp_sanitized = "${replace("${local.timestamp}", "/[-| |T|Z|:]/", "")}"

}

output "timestamp" {
  value = "${local.timestamp_sanitized}"
}

Example runs

Run #1:

$ terraform apply

Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Outputs:

timestamp = 20190221205825

Run #2:

$ terraform apply

Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Outputs:

timestamp = 20190221205839