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In historical versions of Terraform the responsibility to check this was inside the terraform.NewContext function, along with various other assorted concerns that made that function particularly complicated. More recently, we reduced the responsibility of the "terraform" package only to instantiating particular named plugins, assuming that its caller is responsible for selecting appropriate versions of any providers that _are_ external. However, until this commit we were just assuming that "terraform init" had correctly selected appropriate plugins and recorded them in the lock file, and so nothing was dealing with the problem of ensuring that there haven't been any changes to the lock file or config since the most recent "terraform init" which would cause us to need to re-evaluate those decisions. Part of the game here is to slightly extend the role of the dependency locks object to also carry information about a subset of provider addresses whose lock entries we're intentionally disregarding as part of the various little edge-case features we have for overridding providers: dev_overrides, "unmanaged providers", and the testing overrides in our own unit tests. This is an in-memory-only annotation, never included in the serialized plan files on disk. I had originally intended to create a new package to encapsulate all of this plugin-selection logic, including both the version constraint checking here and also the handling of the provider factory functions, but as an interim step I've just made version constraint consistency checks the responsibility of the backend/local package, which means that we'll always catch problems as part of preparing for local operations, while not imposing these additional checks on commands that _don't_ run local operations, such as "terraform apply" when in remote operations mode. |
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README.md
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, and Terraform can automatically download providers that are published on the Terraform Registry. HashiCorp develops some providers, and others are developed by other organizations. For more information, see Extending Terraform.
To learn more about compiling Terraform and contributing suggested changes, please refer to the contributing guide.
To learn more about how we handle bug reports, please read the bug triage guide.