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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Nick Fagerlund	b3935b29d7	website: Reconcile docs about plugin discovery and downloading (#18973 ) website: Reconcile docs about plugin discovery and downloading I'm attempting to keep things simple for normal users while making sure we've got the full behavior written down somewhere for plugin developers. This commit doesn't stand alone; it's paired with a commit in the terraform-website repo, to deal with some related content in the "extend" section.	8 years ago
ScottWinkler	60bc16305a	tools/terraform-bundle: accept custom plugins from a local directory To make it easier to include third-party plugins in generated bundles, we'll now search a local directory for available plugins and skip attempting to install from releases.hashicorp.com if a dependency can be satisfied locally.	8 years ago
Martin Atkins	909989acfa	terraform-bundle tool for bundling Terraform with providers Normally "terraform init" will download and install the plugins necessary to work with a particular configuration, but sometimes Terraform is deployed in a network that, for one reason or another, cannot access the official plugin repository for automatic download. terraform-bundle provides an alternative method, allowing the auto-download process to be run out-of-band on a separate machine that _does_ have access to the repository. The result is a zip file that can be extracted onto the target system to install both the desired Terraform version and a selection of providers, thus avoiding the need for on-the-fly plugin installation. This is provided as a separate tool from Terraform because it is not something that most users will need. In the rare case where this is needed, we will for the moment assume that users are able to build this tool themselves. We may later release it in a pre-built form, if it proves to be generally useful. It uses the same API from the plugin/discovery package is is used by the auto-install behavior in "terraform init", so plugin versions are resolved in the same way. However, it's expected that several different Terraform configurations will run from the same bundle, so this tool allows the bundle to include potentially many versions of the same provider and thus allows each Terraform configuration to select from the available versions in the bundle, avoiding the need to upgrade all configurations to new provider versions in lockstep.	9 years ago

Author

SHA1

Message

Date

Nick Fagerlund

b3935b29d7

website: Reconcile docs about plugin discovery and downloading (#18973 )

website: Reconcile docs about plugin discovery and downloading

I'm attempting to keep things simple for normal users while making sure we've
got the full behavior written down somewhere for plugin developers.

This commit doesn't stand alone; it's paired with a commit in the
terraform-website repo, to deal with some related content in the "extend"
section.

ScottWinkler

60bc16305a

tools/terraform-bundle: accept custom plugins from a local directory

To make it easier to include third-party plugins in generated bundles, we'll now search a local directory for available plugins and skip attempting to install from releases.hashicorp.com if a dependency can be satisfied locally.

Martin Atkins

909989acfa

terraform-bundle tool for bundling Terraform with providers

Normally "terraform init" will download and install the plugins necessary
to work with a particular configuration, but sometimes Terraform is
deployed in a network that, for one reason or another, cannot access the
official plugin repository for automatic download.

terraform-bundle provides an alternative method, allowing the
auto-download process to be run out-of-band on a separate machine that
_does_ have access to the repository. The result is a zip file that can
be extracted onto the target system to install both the desired
Terraform version and a selection of providers, thus avoiding the need
for on-the-fly plugin installation.

This is provided as a separate tool from Terraform because it is not
something that most users will need. In the rare case where this is
needed, we will for the moment assume that users are able to build this
tool themselves. We may later release it in a pre-built form, if it proves
to be generally useful.

It uses the same API from the plugin/discovery package is is used by the
auto-install behavior in "terraform init", so plugin versions are resolved
in the same way. However, it's expected that several different Terraform
configurations will run from the same bundle, so this tool allows the
bundle to include potentially many versions of the same provider and thus
allows each Terraform configuration to select from the available versions
in the bundle, avoiding the need to upgrade all configurations to new
provider versions in lockstep.

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