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For remote operations, the remote system (Terraform Cloud or Enterprise) writes the stored variable values into a .tfvars file before running the remote copy of Terraform CLI. By contrast, for operations that only run locally (like "terraform import"), we fetch the stored variable values from the remote API and add them into the set of available variables directly as part of creating the local execution context. Previously in the local-only case we were assuming that all stored variables are strings, which isn't true: the Terraform Cloud/Enterprise UI allows users to specify that a particular variable is given as an HCL expression, in which case the correct behavior is to parse and evaluate the expression to obtain the final value. This also addresses a related issue whereby previously we were forcing all sensitive values to be represented as a special string "<sensitive>". That leads to type checking errors for any variable specified as having a type other than string, so instead here we use an unknown value as a placeholder so that type checking can pass. Unpopulated sensitive values may cause errors downstream though, so we'll also produce a warning for each of them to let the user know that those variables are not available for local-only operations. It's a warning rather than an error so that operations that don't rely on known values for those variables can potentially complete successfully. This can potentially produce errors in situations that would've been silently ignored before: if a remote variable is marked as being HCL syntax but is not valid HCL then it will now fail parsing at this early stage, whereas previously it would've just passed through as a string and failed only if the operation tried to interpret it as a non-string. However, in situations like these the remote operations like "terraform plan" would already have been failing with an equivalent error message anyway, so it's unlikely that any existing workspace that is being used for routine operations would have such a broken configuration. |
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Terraform
- Website: https://www.terraform.io
- Mailing list: Google Groups
Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.
The key features of Terraform are:
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Infrastructure as Code: Infrastructure is described using a high-level configuration syntax. This allows a blueprint of your datacenter to be versioned and treated as you would any other code. Additionally, infrastructure can be shared and re-used.
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Execution Plans: Terraform has a "planning" step where it generates an execution plan. The execution plan shows what Terraform will do when you call apply. This lets you avoid any surprises when Terraform manipulates infrastructure.
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Resource Graph: Terraform builds a graph of all your resources, and parallelizes the creation and modification of any non-dependent resources. Because of this, Terraform builds infrastructure as efficiently as possible, and operators get insight into dependencies in their infrastructure.
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Change Automation: Complex changesets can be applied to your infrastructure with minimal human interaction. With the previously mentioned execution plan and resource graph, you know exactly what Terraform will change and in what order, avoiding many possible human errors.
For more information, see the introduction section of the Terraform website.
Getting Started & Documentation
If you're new to Terraform and want to get started creating infrastructure, please checkout our Getting Started guide, available on the Terraform website.
All documentation is available on the Terraform website:
Developing Terraform
This repository contains only Terraform core, which includes the command line interface and the main graph engine. Providers are implemented as plugins that each have their own repository in the terraform-providers organization on GitHub. Instructions for developing each provider are in the associated README file. For more information, see the provider development overview.
To learn more about compiling Terraform and contributing suggested changes, please refer to the contributing guide.