Terraform

• Website: http://www.terraform.io
• IRC: #terraform on Freenode
• Mailing list: Google Groups

Terraform is a tool for building and changing infrastructure safetly and efficiently.

Developing Terraform

If you wish to work on Terraform itself or any of its built-in providers, you'll first need Go installed (version 1.2+ is required). Make sure Go is properly installed, including setting up a GOPATH. Make sure Go is compiled with cgo support. You can verify this by running go env and checking that CGOENABLED is set to "1".

Next, install Git, which is needed for some dependencies.

Then, install Gox, which is used as a compilation tool on top of Go:

$ go get -u github.com/mitchellh/gox

Next, clone this repository into $GOPATH/src/github.com/hashicorp/terraform and then just type make. This will compile some dependencies and then run the tests. If this exits with exit status 0, then everything is working!

$ make
...

To compile a development version of Terraform and the built-in plugins, run make dev. This will put Terraform binaries in the bin folder:

$ make dev
...
$ bin/terraform
...

If you're developing a specific package, you can run tests for just that package by specifying the TEST variable. For example below, only terraform package tests will be run.

$ make test TEST=./terraform
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