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Martin Atkins ddf9635af6 website: Don't claim that things are "very easy"
We typically try to avoid making subjective, boasty claims in our
documentation in recent times, but there remained both some older
documentation that we've not recently revised and also some newer examples
that are, in retrospect, also perhaps more "boasty" than they need to be.

We prefer not to use this sort of boasty language because not everyone
using Terraform has the same background and experience, and so what is
"easy" or "intuitive" to one person may not be so to another person, and
that should not suggest that the second person is in any way wrong or
inadequate.

In reviewing some of our use of the word "easy" here I tried as much as
possible to surgically revise the existing content without getting drawn
into a big rewrite, but in some cases the content was either pretty
unsalvageable (due to talking about obsolete features that were removed
long ago) or required some broader changes to make the result hopefully
still get the same facts across. In those cases I've both removed some
content entirely or adjusted larger paragraphs.

This was not an exhaustive review and so I'm sure there's still plenty of
room for similar improvements elsewhere. I also resisted the urge to
update some pages that contain outdated information about currently-active
features.
2020-10-26 10:02:38 -07:00
Nick Fagerlund 26f786959b
website: Update all Learn crosslinks (#26442)
* website: Update all Learn crosslinks

The URL structure on Learn recently changed, so it's time to update some URLs.

Co-authored-by: Tu Nguyen <im2nguyen@users.noreply.github.com>
2020-10-02 11:02:59 -07:00
Nick Fagerlund 6494591ec1 website: Remove extra copy of "Getting Started", update links
This guide now lives at:

- https://learn.hashicorp.com/terraform#getting-started

...and terraform.io has been redirecting to there for quite a while. This commit
removes the extra copy so that the text of the two versions doesn't drift, and
updates existing links to point to the new location.
2020-02-05 14:58:30 -08:00
Kyle MacDonald 26131d948c website: add yt video to /intro 2019-12-03 15:14:59 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund 3aa909ac6e website: Update URLs and name references for Terraform Cloud rebrand
The Terraform Enterprise brand has now been split into two parts:

- Terraform Cloud is the application that helps teams use Terraform together,
  with remote state storage, a shared run environment, etc.
- Terraform Enterprise is the on-premise distribution that lets enterprises run
  a private instance of the Terraform Cloud application.

The former TFE docs have been split accordingly.
2019-08-16 15:55:29 -07:00
Radek Simko c41e98a075
Merge pull request #19166 from manojlds/patch-1
Minor edits to improve the reading flow
2019-07-24 08:51:52 +01:00
Kristin Laemmert 39ef97beff
website: adding examples of complex variables on the command line (#20871) 2019-04-01 07:51:17 -04:00
Nikolai Vavilov 01e26e337e website: add missing article (#19368) 2019-03-20 16:20:32 -07:00
Nathan Dataguake Basanese 32daeec29d website: clean up `terraform destroy` output example (#20099) 2019-03-20 16:15:30 -07:00
Nikolai Vavilov e10cf6dabd
website: add missing article 2018-11-11 23:15:11 +02:00
Manoj 7099b165e6
Minor edits to improve the reading flow 2018-10-22 23:33:07 +05:30
Yevgeniy Brikman b44932d8fe website: Simplify the Getting Started consul module example
This module now gets the region from the inherited provider block.
2018-06-28 18:10:55 -07:00
Thomas Kula e2373c8073 website: Using demo.consul.io requires scheme = "https"
Following the examples as they were previously would cause errors
accessing demo.consul.io. Now we consistently set the scheme to https for
all examples that use demo.consul.io.

This also includes some other updates to the URLs, since the Consul demo
has been rebuilt with a different based configuration, and some general
formatting and copyediting changes in the Consul example.
2018-06-22 10:18:27 -07:00
Brian Flad 4e7c9dd07b docs/getting-started: Replace underscores in aws_s3_bucket name in dependencies example 2018-03-13 12:56:49 -04:00
Anthony Galea 664391c254 website: fix various typos 2018-03-02 09:16:01 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund 66ff8f8bed website: Deprecation notes about "terraform push"
Also:

- In the getting started guide, the TFE content was all tailored to the older
  run-locally workflow. I've replaced it with some brief explanation and a link
  to the dedicated TFE getting started guide.
- Fixed a sidebar link glitch in the configuration section. (Both "Terraform"
  and "Terraform Enterprise" were marked as active if you were on the TFE page.)
- Renamed the "Terraform Enterprise" page "Terraform Push." (Some people have
  gotten confused and landed on this page when trying to set up the `atlas`
  remote backend.)
2018-02-27 14:48:04 -08:00
Michael Sambol abac457033 website: Fix typo in Getting Started guide 2018-02-21 11:42:22 -08:00
Michael Mell 4b598860bb website: document the naming conventions for outputs 2018-02-12 19:33:57 -08:00
Joseph Núñez 7c5e160c58 website: fix typo in getting started guide 2018-01-24 21:02:03 -03:00
Charles Chan 894a7c966e website: tweak ambiguous nesting of punctuation inside quotes
Our prevailing writing style is to place punctuation outside of quotes, since in many contexts Terraform itself treats punctuation within quotes as significant and so it can be confusing to use punctuation in quotes in our prose.
2018-01-03 12:00:19 -08:00
Gregory McCue b9aee64f3b website: correct intro docs about terraform init -upgrade
"-upgrade" was misspelled as "-update".
2017-11-29 14:14:48 -08:00
Martin Atkins 7fa731f293 website: Modules Getting Started guide to use Terraform Registry
This is a significant rework of the Modules getting started guide to be
in terms of the Consul module available via the Terraform Registry. This
allows us to introduce the registry as part of the tutorial, and also
gives us some auto-generated documentation to link to as context for
the tutorial.

This new module is designed pretty differently than the one we formerly
used, and in particular it doesn't expose any server addresses for the
created Consul cluster -- due to using an auto-scaling group -- and thus
we're forced to use the (arguably-less-compelling) auto-scaling group name
for our output example.
2017-11-01 07:22:20 -07:00
Martin Atkins 400038eda4 command: "terraform apply" uses interactive confirmation by default
In the 0.10 release we added an opt-in mode where Terraform would prompt
interactively for confirmation during apply. We made this opt-in to give
those who wrap Terraform in automation some time to update their scripts
to explicitly opt out of this behavior where appropriate.

Here we switch the default so that a "terraform apply" with no arguments
will -- if it computes a non-empty diff -- display the diff and wait for
the user to type "yes" in similar vein to the "terraform destroy" command.

This makes the commonly-used "terraform apply" a safe workflow for
interactive use, so "terraform plan" is now mainly for use in automation
where a separate planning step is used. The apply command remains
non-interactive when given an explicit plan file.

The previous behavior -- though not recommended -- can be obtained by
explicitly setting the -auto-approve option on the apply command line,
and indeed that is how all of the tests are updated here so that they can
continue to run non-interactively.
2017-11-01 06:54:39 -07:00
Martin Atkins 93651450b1 website: don't talk about graphs in the Getting Started guide
Previously we just assumed the reader was familiar with the idea of a
graph but didn't explain it.

Since graphs are an implementation detail of Terraform, rather than
essential information needed for new users, this revises the introduction
text to talk only about _dependencies_, which we assume the user is
familiar with as a more practical concept.

Additionally, Paul Hinze did a great talk on how Terraform uses graphs
at HashiConf 2016 which is good additional content for our existing
"Graph Internals" page, which includes a concise explanation of the
basics of graph theory.
2017-09-11 11:09:11 -07:00
Chris Doherty 793b986860 Cosmetic doc changes:
- Having a map 'foo' with a key 'foo' is confusing.
  - it's -> its
2017-09-05 15:28:36 -07:00
Clint e2272f71a0 Update our documentation to push "Getting Started" better (#15866)
* update plugin/provider to make clear this section isn't needed for regular use

* add some links and notes about getting started

* remove the mention of binaries... I 'm not sure it's needed yet

* 'Installing Terraform Providers' section

* sometimes I can't words good

* move the 'installing providers' block

* cleanup of terms

* copy that update to plugins/provider too
2017-08-21 15:44:27 -05:00
Nick Fagerlund 8c7bfde292 Docs: Fix broken links and a broken example
These links were casualties of the core/provider split. There was also
an example that suggested cloning a subdirectory of a git repo.
2017-08-02 20:03:41 -07:00
seph 29ebe07e1e Update link to the AWS example 2017-07-24 14:52:29 -05:00
Robert Liebowitz 8d98fdecac Autoload only .auto.tfvars files 2017-07-05 17:24:17 -07:00
Yuval Greenfield 23dff5124a Warn that amis are region specific (#15312)
* Warn that amis are region specific

To avoid `InvalidAMIID.NotFound`

See https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/11220

* Add the expected error

* Update build.html.md
2017-06-16 08:18:29 +01:00
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