terraform-provider-cloudinit

Terraform Cloud-init Provider

Terraform provider for rendering cloud-init configurations.

This provider is intended to replace the template provider. General templating can now be achieved through the templatefile function, without creating a separate data resource.

The cloud-init Terraform provider exposes the cloudinit_config data source, previously available as the template_cloudinit_config resource in the template provider.

Requirements

• Terraform 0.10.x
• Go 1.12 (to build the provider plugin)

Using the provider

The cloudinit_config data source renders cloud-init config given in HCL form to the MIME-multipart form required by cloud-init.

Example configuration:

data "cloudinit_config" "foo" {
  gzip = false
  base64_encode = false

  part {
    content_type = "text/x-shellscript"
    content = "baz"
  }
}

This renders to:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"MIMEBOUNDARY\"\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\n\r\n--MIMEBOUNDARY\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\nContent-Type: text/x-shellscript\r\nMime-Version: 1.0\r\n\r\nbaz\r\n--MIMEBOUNDARY--\r\n

Developing the Provider

If you wish to work on the provider, you'll first need Go installed on your machine (version 1.8+ is required). You'll also need to correctly setup a GOPATH, as well as adding $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH.

To compile the provider, run make build. This will build the provider and put the provider binary in the $GOPATH/bin directory.

$ make bin
...
$ $GOPATH/bin/terraform-provider-cloudinit
...

In order to test the provider, you can simply run make test.

$ make test

In order to run the full suite of Acceptance tests, run make testacc.

Note: Acceptance tests create real resources, and often cost money to run.

$ make testacc