7 Commits (edb4c00a8616d2b284febe618f13b9d925b1984f)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Alisdair McDiarmid	c5c1f31db3	backend: Validate remote backend Terraform version ... When using the enhanced remote backend, a subset of all Terraform operations are supported. Of these, only plan and apply can be executed on the remote infrastructure (e.g. Terraform Cloud). Other operations run locally and use the remote backend for state storage. This causes problems when the local version of Terraform does not match the configured version from the remote workspace. If the two versions are incompatible, an `import` or `state mv` operation can cause the remote workspace to be unusable until a manual fix is applied. To prevent this from happening accidentally, this commit introduces a check that the local Terraform version and the configured remote workspace Terraform version are compatible. This check is skipped for commands which do not write state, and can also be disabled by the use of a new command-line flag, `-ignore-remote-version`. Terraform version compatibility is defined as: - For all releases before 0.14.0, local must exactly equal remote, as two different versions cannot share state; - 0.14.0 to 1.0.x are compatible, as we will not change the state version number until at least Terraform 1.1.0; - Versions after 1.1.0 must have the same major and minor versions, as we will not change the state version number in a patch release. If the two versions are incompatible, a diagnostic is displayed, advising that the error can be suppressed with `-ignore-remote-version`. When this flag is used, the diagnostic is still displayed, but as a warning instead of an error. Commands which will not write state can assert this fact by calling the helper `meta.ignoreRemoteBackendVersionConflict`, which will disable the checks. Those which can write state should instead call the helper `meta.remoteBackendVersionCheck`, which will return diagnostics for display. In addition to these explicit paths for managing the version check, we have an implicit check in the remote backend's state manager initialization method. Both of the above helpers will disable this check. This fallback is in place to ensure that future code paths which access state cannot accidentally skip the remote version check.	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
Alisdair McDiarmid	67203dade8	command: Simplify Meta.process helper method ... After some refactoring, this helper method had an unused argument (vars) and an always-nil error return value. This commit cleans this up.	6 years ago
Martin Atkins	8664749b59	backend: Allow certain commands to opt out of required variable checks ... Terraform Core expects all variables to be set, but for some ancillary commands it's fine for them to just be set to placeholders because the variable values themselves are not key to the command's functionality as long as the terraform.Context is still self-consistent. For such commands, rather than prompting for interactive input for required variables we'll just stub them out as unknowns to reflect that they are placeholders for values that a user would normally need to provide. This achieves a similar effect to how these commands behaved before, but without the tendency to produce a slightly invalid terraform.Context that would fail in strange ways when asked to run certain operations.	7 years ago
Kristin Laemmert	c9d62bb2f6	command: discard output from flags package and return errs directly (#22373) ... Any command using meta.defaultFlagSet *might* occasionally exit before the flag package's output got written. This caused flag error messages to get lost. This PR discards the flag package output in favor of directly returning the error to the end user.	7 years ago
Kristin Laemmert	30672faebe	remove indentation from json output of `show` and `providers schema` (#20623) ... * command/providers schema: correct help text * command/show: remove indentation from json output * command/providers schema: remove indentation from json output	7 years ago
Kristin Laemmert	16823f43de	command/jsonprovider: export providers schemas to json (#20446) ... * command/jsonprovider: a new package for exporting providers schemas as JSON	7 years ago