From 34b45c5ad841af76131ad25bc0fc7b022eb97292 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hartshorne Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 22:58:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [docs] update terraform configuration page to include reference to the backends section (#14894) --- website/source/docs/configuration/terraform.html.md | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/source/docs/configuration/terraform.html.md b/website/source/docs/configuration/terraform.html.md index 7fdcc91e68..1f1391c182 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/configuration/terraform.html.md +++ b/website/source/docs/configuration/terraform.html.md @@ -29,12 +29,17 @@ terraform { The `terraform` block configures the behavior of Terraform itself. -The currently only allowed configuration within this block is -`required_version`. This setting specifies a set of version constraints +The currently only allowed configurations within this block are +`required_version` and `backend`. + +`required_version` specifies a set of version constraints that must be met to perform operations on this configuration. If the running Terraform version doesn't meet these constraints, an error is shown. See the section below dedicated to this option. +See [backends](/docs/backends/index.html) for more detail on the `backend` +configuration. + **No value within the `terraform` block can use interpolations.** The `terraform` block is loaded very early in the execution of Terraform and interpolations are not yet available.