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Author SHA1 Message Date
Nick Fagerlund 0e5651560b
Website: 0.13 docs edits, mostly around provider requirements (#25686)
* Make sidebar nav in language docs more intuitive
* Minor display fixes for registry docs
* Explain providers in the registry in the providers index
* Revise a bunch of language docs around provider reqs

This is mostly an effort to smooth out some of the explanations, make sure
things are presented in a helpful order, make sure terminology lines up, draw
connections between related concepts, make default behavior more apparent, and
the like. It shouldn't include very much new information, but there might be one
or two things that came out of a conversation somewhere.

Co-authored-by: Judith Malnick <judith@hashicorp.com>
2020-07-30 21:07:36 -07:00
Nick Fagerlund b1eb9dcfcf website: Configuration Language navigation refactoring
The "Configuration Language" section was becoming rather unweildy, both
by having a lot of pages and by some of the pages being quite large in
themselves.

This is a first step towards breaking things up a little more, starting
with two changes:

 - The "Configuration Language" navigation is now split into two
   sub-headings "Configuration Blocks" and "Syntax".

 - Some of the information about sub-blocks of the "terraform" block are
   now given their own pages, because their content is quite complex
   in itself.

 - "Version Constraints" is now a page in its own right, rather than this
   content being duplicated in slightly different forms across multiple
   contexts that make use of user-specified version constraints.
2020-06-18 09:31:52 -07:00
Paddy e6592dc710
Add support for provider metadata to modules. (#22583)
Implement a new provider_meta block in the terraform block of modules, allowing provider-keyed metadata to be communicated from HCL to provider binaries.

Bundled in this change for minimal protocol version bumping is the addition of markdown support for attribute descriptions and the ability to indicate when an attribute is deprecated, so this information can be shown in the schema dump.

Co-authored-by: Paul Tyng <paul@paultyng.net>
2020-03-05 16:53:24 -08:00
Kristin Laemmert 4c221cbcb9
website: document optional syntax for required_providers setting (#23854) 2020-01-14 07:59:18 -05:00
Martin Atkins ff4ea042c2 config: Allow module authors to specify validation rules for variables
The existing "type" argument allows specifying a type constraint that
allows for some basic validation, but often there are more constraints on
a variable value than just its type.

This new feature (requiring an experiment opt-in for now, while we refine
it) allows specifying arbitrary validation rules for any variable which
can then cause custom error messages to be returned when a caller provides
an inappropriate value.

    variable "example" {
      validation {
        condition = var.example != "nope"
        error_message = "Example value must not be \"nope\"."
      }
    }

The core parts of this are designed to do as little new work as possible
when no validations are specified, and thus the main new checking codepath
here can therefore only run when the experiment is enabled in order to
permit having validations.
2020-01-10 15:23:25 -08:00
Martin Atkins f8a32f0b83 website: Consistently recommend the required_providers block
Previously we were inconsistent in whether we were recommending the
new required_providers block or the "version" setting inside a "provider"
block.
2019-10-28 15:56:12 -07:00
Justin Weissig 778cae91a8 website: fix typo in the 'terraform' block documentation page 2019-05-20 14:37:03 -07:00
Ross McKelvie ce1fba5817 website: update required_providers block for terraform 0.12 compatibility 2019-04-19 11:54:19 -07:00
Nick Fagerlund 4a190127b9 website: Version notes: Add new -> old links to 0.12 language docs (except function pages) 2019-02-01 17:20:54 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund 9f85e6d5cc website: Update configuration language section page titles 2018-12-20 14:20:42 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund d2abdc23ac website: Structural edit of configuration language docs
This commit is a wide-ranging set of edits to the pages under
/docs/configuration. Among other things, it

- Separates style conventions out into their own page.
- Separates type constraints and conversion info into their own page.
- Conflates similar complex types a little more freely, since the distinction is
  only relevant when restricting inputs for a reusable module or resource.
- Clarifies several concepts that confused me during edits.
2018-12-20 14:20:42 -08:00
Martin Atkins b3239e8f1f website: Update the "Terraform Settings" page for new style
As part of revamping the "Configuration" portion of the website for the
v0.12 release, here we update the Terraform Settings page to use a similar
"guide-like" writing style as the other updated pages in this section.
2018-10-16 18:47:33 -07:00
Martin Atkins 7ed70bb00e website: new filesystem layout for core/provider split
This repo now contains only the core docs, with other content moving elsewhere.
2017-06-13 11:25:32 -07:00