The provider input before wasn't scoped by path, which caused
non-descendant parts of the graph to grab the configuration of another
sub-tree. The result is that you'd often get copied provider
configurations across the module barriers.
See GH-2024
Currently Terraform is leaking goroutines and with that memory. I know
strictly speaking this maybe isn’t a real concern for Terraform as it’s
mostly used as a short running command line executable.
But there are a few of us out there that are using Terraform in some
long running processes and then this starts to become a problem.
Next to that it’s of course good programming practise to clean up
resources when they're not needed anymore. So even for the standard
command line use case, this seems an improvement in resource management.
Personally I see no downsides as the primary connection to the plugin
is kept alive (the plugin is not killed) and only unused connections
that will never be used again are closed to free up any related
goroutines and memory.
Adds an "alias" field to the provider which allows creating multiple instances
of a provider under different names. This provides support for configurations
such as multiple AWS providers for different regions. In each resource, the
provider can be set with the "provider" field.
(thanks to Cisco Cloud for their support)
/cc @sethvargo
This was causing a race with whichever provider was configured first
would "win" the configuration slot. We need to make sure to append the
unique provider name to the end of the key.
Note: this doesn't have tests. We don't test this yet. :(
