README
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Terraform
- Website: https://www.terraform.io
- Forums: HashiCorp Discuss
- Documentation: https://www.terraform.io/docs/
- Tutorials: HashiCorp's Learn Platform
- Certification Exam: HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
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
Documentation is available on the Terraform website:
If you're new to Terraform and want to get started creating infrastructure, please check out our Getting Started guides on HashiCorp's learning platform. There are also additional guides to continue your learning.
Show off your Terraform knowledge by passing a certification exam. Visit the certification page for information about exams and find study materials on HashiCorp's learning platform.
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.
License
Documentation
Source Files
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Package addrs contains types that represent "addresses", which are references to specific objects within a Terraform configuration or state.
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Package addrs contains types that represent "addresses", which are references to specific objects within a Terraform configuration or state. |
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Package backend provides interfaces that the CLI uses to interact with Terraform.
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Package backend provides interfaces that the CLI uses to interact with Terraform. |
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init
Package init contains the list of backends that can be initialized and basic helper functions for initializing those backends.
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Package init contains the list of backends that can be initialized and basic helper functions for initializing those backends. |
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remote-state/gcs
Package gcs implements remote storage of state on Google Cloud Storage (GCS).
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Package gcs implements remote storage of state on Google Cloud Storage (GCS). |
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builtin
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This file is automatically generated by scripts/generate-plugins.go -- Do not edit!
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This file is automatically generated by scripts/generate-plugins.go -- Do not edit! |
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cliconfig
Package cliconfig has the types representing and the logic to load CLI-level configuration settings.
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Package cliconfig has the types representing and the logic to load CLI-level configuration settings. |
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clistate
Package state exposes common helpers for working with state from the CLI.
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Package state exposes common helpers for working with state from the CLI. |
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e2etest
Package e2etest contains a small number of tests that run against a real Terraform binary, compiled on the fly at the start of the test run.
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Package e2etest contains a small number of tests that run against a real Terraform binary, compiled on the fly at the start of the test run. |
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format
Package format contains helpers for formatting various Terraform structures for human-readabout output.
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Package format contains helpers for formatting various Terraform structures for human-readabout output. |
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jsonconfig
Package jsonconfig implements methods for outputting a configuration snapshot in machine-readable json format
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Package jsonconfig implements methods for outputting a configuration snapshot in machine-readable json format |
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jsonplan
Package jsonplan implements methods for outputting a plan in a machine-readable json format
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Package jsonplan implements methods for outputting a plan in a machine-readable json format |
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jsonprovider
Package jsonprovider contains types and functions to marshal terraform provider schemas into a json formatted output.
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Package jsonprovider contains types and functions to marshal terraform provider schemas into a json formatted output. |
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jsonstate
Package jsonstate implements methods for outputting a state in a machine-readable json format
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Package jsonstate implements methods for outputting a state in a machine-readable json format |
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Package configs contains types that represent Terraform configurations and the different elements thereof.
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Package configs contains types that represent Terraform configurations and the different elements thereof. |
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configload
Package configload knows how to install modules into the .terraform/modules directory and to load modules from those installed locations.
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Package configload knows how to install modules into the .terraform/modules directory and to load modules from those installed locations. |
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configschema
Package configschema contains types for describing the expected structure of a configuration block whose shape is not known until runtime.
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Package configschema contains types for describing the expected structure of a configuration block whose shape is not known until runtime. |
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Package experiments contains the models and logic for opt-in experiments that can be activated for a particular Terraform module.
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Package experiments contains the models and logic for opt-in experiments that can be activated for a particular Terraform module. |
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helper
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acctest
Package acctest contains for Terraform Acceptance Tests
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Package acctest contains for Terraform Acceptance Tests |
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customdiff
Package customdiff provides a set of reusable and composable functions to enable more "declarative" use of the CustomizeDiff mechanism available for resources in package helper/schema.
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Package customdiff provides a set of reusable and composable functions to enable more "declarative" use of the CustomizeDiff mechanism available for resources in package helper/schema. |
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experiment
experiment package contains helper functions for tracking experimental features throughout Terraform.
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experiment package contains helper functions for tracking experimental features throughout Terraform. |
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pathorcontents
Helpers for dealing with file paths and their contents
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Helpers for dealing with file paths and their contents |
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plugin
Package plugin contains types and functions to help Terraform plugins implement the plugin rpc interface.
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Package plugin contains types and functions to help Terraform plugins implement the plugin rpc interface. |
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schema
schema is a high-level framework for easily writing new providers for Terraform.
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schema is a high-level framework for easily writing new providers for Terraform. |
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signalwrapper
Package signalwrapper is used to run functions that are sensitive to signals that may be received from outside the process.
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Package signalwrapper is used to run functions that are sensitive to signals that may be received from outside the process. |
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variables
Package variables provides functions and types for working with Terraform variables provided as input.
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Package variables provides functions and types for working with Terraform variables provided as input. |
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wrappedreadline
wrappedreadline is a package that has helpers for interacting with readline from a panicwrap executable.
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wrappedreadline is a package that has helpers for interacting with readline from a panicwrap executable. |
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wrappedstreams
Package wrappedstreams provides access to the standard OS streams (stdin, stdout, stderr) even if wrapped under panicwrap.
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Package wrappedstreams provides access to the standard OS streams (stdin, stdout, stderr) even if wrapped under panicwrap. |
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internal
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depsfile
Package depsfile contains the logic for reading and writing Terraform's dependency lock and development override configuration files.
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Package depsfile contains the logic for reading and writing Terraform's dependency lock and development override configuration files. |
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earlyconfig
Package earlyconfig is a specialized alternative to the top-level "configs" package that does only shallow processing of configuration and is therefore able to be much more liberal than the full config loader in what it accepts.
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Package earlyconfig is a specialized alternative to the top-level "configs" package that does only shallow processing of configuration and is therefore able to be much more liberal than the full config loader in what it accepts. |
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getproviders
Package getproviders is the lowest-level provider automatic installation functionality.
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Package getproviders is the lowest-level provider automatic installation functionality. |
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initwd
Package initwd contains various helper functions used by the "terraform init" command to initialize a working directory.
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Package initwd contains various helper functions used by the "terraform init" command to initialize a working directory. |
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modsdir
Package modsdir is an internal package containing the model types used to represent the manifest of modules in a local modules cache directory.
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Package modsdir is an internal package containing the model types used to represent the manifest of modules in a local modules cache directory. |
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providercache
Package providercache contains the logic for auto-installing providers from packages obtained elsewhere, and for managing the local directories that serve as global or single-configuration caches of those auto-installed providers.
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Package providercache contains the logic for auto-installing providers from packages obtained elsewhere, and for managing the local directories that serve as global or single-configuration caches of those auto-installed providers. |
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backend/remote-state/azure
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backend/remote-state/consul
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backend/remote-state/cos
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backend/remote-state/gcs
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backend/remote-state/oss
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backend/remote-state/pg
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backend/remote-state/s3
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legacy
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terraform-ng
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Package lang deals with the runtime aspects of Terraform's configuration language, with concerns such as expression evaluation.
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Package lang deals with the runtime aspects of Terraform's configuration language, with concerns such as expression evaluation. |
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blocktoattr
Package blocktoattr includes some helper functions that can perform preprocessing on a HCL body where a configschema.Block schema is available in order to allow list and set attributes defined in the schema to be optionally written by the user as block syntax.
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Package blocktoattr includes some helper functions that can perform preprocessing on a HCL body where a configschema.Block schema is available in order to allow list and set attributes defined in the schema to be optionally written by the user as block syntax. |
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Package moduledeps contains types that can be used to describe the providers required for all of the modules in a module tree.
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Package moduledeps contains types that can be used to describe the providers required for all of the modules in a module tree. |
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Package plans contains the types that are used to represent Terraform plans.
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Package plans contains the types that are used to represent Terraform plans. |
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internal/planproto
Package planproto is home to the Go stubs generated from the tfplan protobuf schema.
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Package planproto is home to the Go stubs generated from the tfplan protobuf schema. |
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objchange
Package objchange deals with the business logic of taking a prior state value and a config value and producing a proposed new merged value, along with other related rules in this domain.
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Package objchange deals with the business logic of taking a prior state value and a config value and producing a proposed new merged value, along with other related rules in this domain. |
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planfile
Package planfile deals with the file format used to serialize plans to disk and then deserialize them back into memory later.
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Package planfile deals with the file format used to serialize plans to disk and then deserialize them back into memory later. |
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mock_proto
Package mock_tfplugin5 is a generated GoMock package.
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Package mock_tfplugin5 is a generated GoMock package. |
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Package providers contains the interface and primary types required to implement a Terraform resource provider.
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Package providers contains the interface and primary types required to implement a Terraform resource provider. |
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Package provisioners contains the interface and primary types to implement a Terraform resource provisioner.
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Package provisioners contains the interface and primary types to implement a Terraform resource provisioner. |
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regsrc
Package regsrc provides helpers for working with source strings that identify resources within a Terraform registry.
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Package regsrc provides helpers for working with source strings that identify resources within a Terraform registry. |
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Package repl provides the structs and functions necessary to run REPL for Terraform.
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Package repl provides the structs and functions necessary to run REPL for Terraform. |
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Generate Plugins is a small program that updates the lists of plugins in command/internal_plugin_list.go so they will be compiled into the main terraform binary.
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Generate Plugins is a small program that updates the lists of plugins in command/internal_plugin_list.go so they will be compiled into the main terraform binary. |
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Package states contains the types that are used to represent Terraform states.
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Package states contains the types that are used to represent Terraform states. |
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statefile
Package statefile deals with the file format used to serialize states for persistent storage and then deserialize them into memory again later.
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Package statefile deals with the file format used to serialize states for persistent storage and then deserialize them into memory again later. |
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statemgr
Package statemgr defines the interfaces and some supporting functionality for "state managers", which are components responsible for writing state to some persistent storage and then later retrieving it.
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Package statemgr defines the interfaces and some supporting functionality for "state managers", which are components responsible for writing state to some persistent storage and then later retrieving it. |
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Package tfdiags is a utility package for representing errors and warnings in a manner that allows us to produce good messages for the user.
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Package tfdiags is a utility package for representing errors and warnings in a manner that allows us to produce good messages for the user. |
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tools
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terraform-bundle
terraform-bundle is a tool to create "bundle archives" that contain both a particular version of Terraform and a set of providers for use with it.
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terraform-bundle is a tool to create "bundle archives" that contain both a particular version of Terraform and a set of providers for use with it. |
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terraform-bundle/e2etest
terraform bundle e2e tests
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terraform bundle e2e tests |
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The version package provides a location to set the release versions for all packages to consume, without creating import cycles.
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The version package provides a location to set the release versions for all packages to consume, without creating import cycles. |
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