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Martin Atkins f3a2165587 website: Use "Input Variable" as full term for var.foo
We've historically been somewhat inconsistent in how we refer to the
type of object defined by "variable" blocks in configuration. Parts of
our documentation refer to them as "input variables" or just "variables",
while our implementation refers to them as "user variables".

Since Terraform Registry is now also referring to these as "Inputs", here
we standardize on "Input Variable" as the fully-qualified name for this
concept, with "variable" being a shorthand for this where context is
obvious. Outside of this context, anything that can be referred to in
an interpolation expression is generically known as a "variable", with
Input Variables being just one kind, specified by the "var." prefix.

While this terminology shift is not critical yet, it will become more
important as we start to document the new version of the configuration
language so we can use the generic meaning of "variable" there.
2017-11-09 11:08:09 -08:00
Martin Atkins 91a4af9c8a website: rewrite modules usage documentation for new features
The modules mechanism has changed quite a bit for version 0.11 and so
although simple usage remains broadly compatible there are some
significant changes in the behavior of more complex modules.

Since large parts of this were rewritten anyway, I also took the
opportunity to do some copy-editing to make the prose on this page more
consistent with our usual editorial voice and to wrap the long
lines.
2017-11-01 07:22:20 -07:00
Chris Doherty 793b986860 Cosmetic doc changes:
- Having a map 'foo' with a key 'foo' is confusing.
  - it's -> its
2017-09-05 15:28:36 -07:00
Robert Liebowitz 8d98fdecac Autoload only .auto.tfvars files 2017-07-05 17:24:17 -07:00
Robert Liebowitz 006744bfe0 Use all tfvars files in working directory
As a side effect, several commands that previously did not have a failure
state can now fail during meta-parameter processing.
2017-07-05 17:24:17 -07:00
Martin Atkins 7ed70bb00e website: new filesystem layout for core/provider split
This repo now contains only the core docs, with other content moving elsewhere.
2017-06-13 11:25:32 -07:00