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Terraform Documentation
This directory contains the portions of the Terraform website that pertain to the core functionality, excluding providers and the overall configuration.
The files in this directory are intended to be used in conjunction with
the terraform-website
repository, which brings all of the
different documentation sources together and contains the scripts for testing and building the site as
a whole.
Suggesting Changes
You can submit an issue with documentation requests or submit a pull request with suggested changes.
Click Edit this page at the bottom of any Terraform website page to go directly to the associated markdown file in GitHub.
Modifying Sidebar Navigation
Updates to the sidebar navigation of Terraform docs need to be made in the terraform-website
repository (preferrably in a PR also updating the submodule commit). You can read more about how to make modifications to the navigation in the README for terraform-website
.
Previewing Changes
You should preview all of your changes locally before creating a pull request. The build includes content from this repository and the terraform-website
repository, allowing you to preview the entire Terraform documentation site.
Set Up Local Environment
-
Create a
~/go
directory manually or by installing Go. -
Open terminal and set
GOPATH
as an environment variable:Bash:
export $GOPATH=~/go
(bash)Zsh:
echo -n 'export GOPATH=~/go' >> ~/.zshrc
-
Restart your terminal or command line session.
Launch Site Locally
- Navigate into your local
terraform
top-level directory and runmake website
. - Open
http://localhost:3000
in your web browser. While the preview is running, you can edit pages and Next.js will automatically rebuild them. - When you're done with the preview, press
ctrl-C
in your terminal to stop the server.
Deploy Changes
New commits in hashicorp/terraform
do not automatically deploy the site. Do the following for documentation pull requests:
- Add a backport label to the PR. Use the label that corresponds to the latest Terraform patch release (e.g.,
1.2-backport
). When you merge your PR tomain
, GitHub bot automatically generates a backport PR to merge your commits into the appropriate release branch. - Merge the backport PR. When all tests pass successfully, merge the backport PR into the release branch. The new content will be added to the site during the next minor release.
- Cherry-pick changes to
stable-website
. If you want your changes to show up immediately, check out the latest version of thestable-website
branch, cherry-pick your changes to the branch, and rungit push
. Your changes will be live on the site within the hour.