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artifacts	Artifact Provider	docs-enterprise-artifact-provider	Terraform has a provider for managing artifacts called `atlas_artifact`.

Artifact Provider

Terraform has a provider for managing Terraform Enterprise artifacts called atlas_artifact.

This is used to make data stored in Artifacts available to Terraform for interpolation. In the following example, an artifact is defined and references an AMI ID stored in Terraform Enterprise.

provider "atlas" {
  # You can also set the atlas token by exporting
  # ATLAS_TOKEN into your env
  token = "${var.atlas_token}"
}

resource "atlas_artifact" "web-worker" {
  name = "%{DEFAULT_USERNAME}/web-worker"
  type = "amazon.image"
  version = "latest"
}

resource "aws_instance" "worker-machine" {
  ami = "${atlas_artifact.web-worker.metadata_full.region-us-east-1}"
  instance_type = "m1.small"
}

This automatically pulls the "latest" artifact version.

Following a new artifact version being created via a Packer build, the following diff would be generated when running terraform plan.

-/+ aws_instance.worker-machine
    ami:             "ami-168f9d7e" => "ami-2f3a9df2" (forces new resource)
    instance_type:   "m1.small" => "m1.small"

This allows you to reference changing artifacts and trigger new deployments upon pushing subsequent Packer builds.

Read more about artifacts in the Terraform documentation.