terraform

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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Alisdair McDiarmid	94340b5940	cli: Add reference to global options to help text	5 years ago
Martin Atkins	c94a6102df	command: Improve consistency of the command short descriptions The short description of our commands (as shown in the main help output from "terraform") was previously very inconsistent, using different tense/mood for different commands. Some of the commands were also using some terminology choices inconsistent with how we currently talk about the related ideas in our documentation. Here I've tried to add some consistency by first rewriting them all in the imperative mood (except the ones that just are just subcommand groupings), and tweaking some of the terminology to hopefully gel better with how we present similar ideas in our recently-updated docs. While working on this I inevitably spotted some similar inconsistencies in the longer-form help output of some of the commands. I've not reviewed all of these for consistency, but I did update some where the wording was either left inconsstent with the short form changes I'd made or where the prose stood out to me as particularly inconsistent with our current usual documentation language style. All of this is subjective, so I expect we'll continue to tweak these over time as we continue to develop our documentation writing style based on user questions and feedback.	6 years ago
Martin Atkins	e270291f19	command: terraform providers lock This command is intended to help support situations where Terraform is configured to use only local mirrors for provider installation and so the normal "terraform init" flow would not have direct access to the official package checksums published in the origin registry. The intended workflow here is to use this command only when adding a new provider or changing an existing provider's version in the configuration, to augment the lock file with all of the checksums required to verify the provider across a variety of different platforms. Once this command has recorded all of the official checksums, future runs of "terraform init" will verify that provider packages obtained from a local mirror match with those upstream checksums.	6 years ago

Author

SHA1

Message

Date

Alisdair McDiarmid

94340b5940

cli: Add reference to global options to help text

Martin Atkins

c94a6102df

command: Improve consistency of the command short descriptions

The short description of our commands (as shown in the main help output
from "terraform") was previously very inconsistent, using different
tense/mood for different commands. Some of the commands were also using
some terminology choices inconsistent with how we currently talk about
the related ideas in our documentation.

Here I've tried to add some consistency by first rewriting them all in
the imperative mood (except the ones that just are just subcommand
groupings), and tweaking some of the terminology to hopefully gel better
with how we present similar ideas in our recently-updated docs.

While working on this I inevitably spotted some similar inconsistencies
in the longer-form help output of some of the commands. I've not reviewed
all of these for consistency, but I did update some where the wording
was either left inconsstent with the short form changes I'd made or
where the prose stood out to me as particularly inconsistent with our
current usual documentation language style.

All of this is subjective, so I expect we'll continue to tweak these over
time as we continue to develop our documentation writing style based on
user questions and feedback.

Martin Atkins

e270291f19

command: terraform providers lock

This command is intended to help support situations where Terraform is
configured to use only local mirrors for provider installation and so the
normal "terraform init" flow would not have direct access to the official
package checksums published in the origin registry.

The intended workflow here is to use this command only when adding a new
provider or changing an existing provider's version in the configuration,
to augment the lock file with all of the checksums required to verify
the provider across a variety of different platforms. Once this command
has recorded all of the official checksums, future runs of
"terraform init" will verify that provider packages obtained from a local
mirror match with those upstream checksums.

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