6 Commits (4835deddaef450198bba00a50311f2ada6f79b96)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Martin Atkins	fda0579537	Experiments supported only in alpha/dev builds ... We originally introduced the idea of language experiments as a way to get early feedback on not-yet-proven feature ideas, ideally as part of the initial exploration of the solution space rather than only after a solution has become relatively clear. Unfortunately, our tradeoff of making them available in normal releases behind an explicit opt-in in order to make it easier to participate in the feedback process had the unintended side-effect of making it feel okay to use experiments in production and endure the warnings they generate. This in turn has made us reluctant to make use of the experiments feature lest experiments become de-facto production features which we then feel compelled to preserve even though we aren't yet ready to graduate them to stable features. In an attempt to tweak that compromise, here we make the availability of experiments _at all_ a build-time flag which will not be set by default, and therefore experiments will not be available in most release builds. The intent (not yet implemented in this PR) is for our release process to set this flag only when it knows it's building an alpha release or a development snapshot not destined for release at all, which will therefore allow us to still use the alpha releases as a vehicle for giving feedback participants access to a feature (without needing to install a Go toolchain) but will not encourage pretending that these features are production-ready before they graduate from experimental. Only language experiments have an explicit framework for dealing with them which outlives any particular experiment, so most of the changes here are to that generalized mechanism. However, the intent is that non-language experiments, such as experimental CLI commands, would also in future check Meta.AllowExperimentalFeatures and gate the use of those experiments too, so that we can be consistent that experimental features will never be available unless you explicitly choose to use an alpha release or a custom build from source code. Since there are already some experiments active at the time of this commit which were not previously subject to this restriction, we'll pragmatically leave those as exceptions that will remain generally available for now, and so this new approach will apply only to new experiments started in the future. Once those experiments have all concluded, we will be left with no more exceptions unless we explicitly choose to make an exception for some reason we've not imagined yet. It's important that we be able to write tests that rely on experiments either being available or not being available, so here we're using our typical approach of making "package main" deal with the global setting that applies to Terraform CLI executables while making the layers below all support fine-grain selection of this behavior so that tests with different needs can run concurrently without trampling on one another. As a compromise, the integration tests in the terraform package will run with experiments enabled _by default_ since we commonly need to exercise experiments in those tests, but they can selectively opt-out if they need to by overriding the loader setting back to false again.	4 years ago
Martin Atkins	9076400436	configs: Decode preconditions and postconditions ... This allows precondition and postcondition checks to be declared for resources and output values as long as the preconditions_postconditions experiment is enabled. Terraform Core doesn't currently know anything about these features, so as of this commit declaring them does nothing at all.	4 years ago
Chris Arcand	a4c24e3147	Add cloud {} configuration block for Terraform Cloud ... This is a replacement declaration for using Terraform Cloud as a remote backend, leaving the literal backend as an implementation detail and not a user-level concept.	5 years ago
Martin Atkins	6b8e103d6a	configs: Include "moved" blocks when merging multiple files into a module ... An earlier commit added logic to decode "moved" blocks and do static validation of them. Here we now include that result also in modules produced from those files, which we can then use in Terraform Core to actually implement the moves. This also places the feature behind an active experiment keyword called config_driven_move. For now activating this doesn't actually achieve anything except let you include moved blocks that Terraform will summarily ignore, but we'll expand the scope of this in later commits to eventually reach the point where it's really usable.	5 years ago
Kristin Laemmert	3acb5e2841	configs: add decodeMovedBlock behind a locked gate. (#28973) ... This PR adds decoding for the upcoming "moved" blocks in configuration. This code is gated behind an experiment called EverythingIsAPlan, but the experiment is not registered as an active experiment, so it will never run (there is a test in place which will fail if the experiment is ever registered). This also adds a new function to the Targetable interface, AddrType, to simplifying comparing two addrs.Targetable. There is some validation missing still: this does not (yet) descend into resources to see if the actual resource types are the same (I've put this off in part because we will eventually need the provider schema to verify aliased resources, so I suspect this validation will have to happen later on).	5 years ago
Martin Atkins	31349a9c3a	Move configs/ to internal/configs/ ... This is part of a general effort to move all of Terraform's non-library package surface under internal in order to reinforce that these are for internal use within Terraform only. If you were previously importing packages under this prefix into an external codebase, you could pin to an earlier release tag as an interim solution until you've make a plan to achieve the same functionality some other way.	5 years ago