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Nick Fagerlund 8b87318b35 website: Add new Language sidebar, repurpose docs.erb as CLI sidebar
We're splitting the current Terraform CLI docs into two top-level categories,
and these are the new nav sidebars for those sections.

As of this commit, they refer to some new "glue" pages that don't exist yet.
2020-11-11 19:11:29 -08:00
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update some pages that contain outdated information about currently-active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
Martin Atkins 2bd2a9a923 internal/getproviders: HTTPMirrorSource implementation
We previously had this just stubbed out because it was a stretch goal for
the v0.13.0 release and it ultimately didn't make it in.

Here we fill out the existing stub -- with a minor change to its interface
so it can access credentials -- with a client implementation that is
compatible with the directory structure produced by the
"terraform providers mirror" subcommand, were the result to be published
on a static file server.
2020-08-26 13:18:08 -07:00
Nick Fagerlund 30b983e1e8 website: Move provisioners into language section of nav sidebar 2020-08-10 14:18:31 -07:00
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
Martin Atkins f1ea705dbe website: Restore the docs for "terraform 0.12upgrade"
Although this command is removed in Terraform 0.13, our documentation is
for all versions of Terraform that remain in common use and keeping this
documented will be helpful for folks who are still using Terraform 0.11
and planning their upgrades to Terraform 0.12.

Both of the upgrade commands now include notes that they are only
available in their specific major version, along with a link to the
relevant upgrade guide for other background information about the upgrade,
in case the user finds the command documentation first. (The command docs
are, I think, a little more discoverable than the upgrade guides.)
2020-06-24 14:21:09 -07:00
Martin Atkins dc8fd14c1e website: "Provider Requirements" documentation
We previously covered everything about using providers on a single page,
but that was getting unwieldy already and we now have a lot more to
discuss with v0.13 introducing a new source address syntax and some other
concepts.

Here we split the provider-related content into two parts: "Provider
Requirements" covers how to find and declare dependencies on providers,
and then "Provider Configuration" (formerly just "Providers") then focuses
primarily on how to write zero or more provider configurations for a
particular provider.

Because "Provider Requirements" is now presented before "Provider
Configuration" in the navigation, I've also moved some of the introductory
content about providers in general onto the "Requirements" page. The
first paragraph of that content is duplicated onto the "Configuration"
page for discoverability, but we now link to the requirements page to get
the full story.
2020-06-18 09:31:52 -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
Martin Atkins 80a4bfbf27 website: New navigation items for the module and provider registry specs 2020-06-11 09:32:39 -07:00
Paul Tyng 22ef5cc99c Modify language for reporting signing state
Be more explicit about the signing status of fetched plugins and provide documentation about the different signing options.
2020-05-26 13:14:05 -04:00
Alisdair McDiarmid 20483da548 website: Add docs for 0.13upgrade 2020-05-11 15:38:16 -04:00
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
Alisdair McDiarmid 081f02971d command/logout: Add terraform logout command
Use terraform logout to remove stored credentials for a remote service
host.
2020-02-06 15:00:55 -05:00
Martin Atkins 778f1ab138
website: Documentation for the "terraform login" command (#22727)
Co-authored-by: Alisdair McDiarmid <alisdair@users.noreply.github.com>
2020-02-04 11:30:40 -05:00
Nick Fagerlund f6e648cc8b website: Document behavior of `self` object for provisioners 2019-10-03 15:12:18 -07:00
Kristin Laemmert 212d5b0b1c
Mildwonkey/docs updates (#22623)
* website/formatdate: update example

The given example was showing HOUR:MONTH instead of HOUR:MINUTE

Fixes #22598

* website/import: remove reference to no-longer-working option

Users can no longer supply `-config=""` to tell Terraform not to load
configuration for import.

Fixes #22294

* website/provisioners: `host` is required in connection blocks

Fixes #21877

* website/variables: clarify variable definition precedence

It was not entirely obvious that a variable could not be assigned
multiples times in a single source.

Fixes #21682

* website/backend/local: add `workspace_dir` attribute

Fixes #21391

* website/output: `sensitive` outputs are redacted in output

Fixes #21502

* website/backends: sidebar order tweak

It makes sense for backend 'configuration' to appear before 'init'.

Fixes #13796

* Revert "website/formatdate: update example"

This reverts commit ccd93c86ddd15a21625c0767702ee1cc62e77254.
2019-08-28 15:34:22 -04:00
Kristin Laemmert 0f6b46bd93
website: add puppet provisioner to the sidebar (#21821) 2019-06-20 09:02:23 -04:00
Nick Fagerlund b4042947d1 website: null_resource isn't a type of provisioner
This page is useful, but it's easier to tell what it's for if we
put it next to the page about connections.
2019-04-15 14:11:02 -07:00
Nick Fagerlund 13166df619 website: move docs/index.html to docs/cli-index.html
Terraform is way bigger than the core CLI tools and the language
now, and the docs have grown accordingly. So we're adding a
global index page to help users get around the many sections of the
docs site, and bumping the CLI/core docs down so they're no longer at the
top of the hierarchy.

The "right" (as in, conceptually pure) way to do this would be to actually
create a new level of directory hierarchy in between. But that would be real
expensive and annoying — the amount of 301s and links to edit would be
monumental, and it wouldn't gain us much beyond a certain picture-straightening
satisfaction, so I'm resisting the temptation.
2019-03-15 13:00:58 +00:00
Nick Fagerlund 094a5d65d3 website: Use a middleman partial for "other docs" list instead of hardcoding it
This relies on a commit in the terraform-website repo, and should make updating
that list much less annoying.
2019-03-14 10:38:07 +00:00
David Chwalisz ddb7e0ab20 fix `Publishing Modules` link of website documentation.
Currently links to [Creating Modules](https://www.terraform.io/docs/modules/create.html) page.
Should link to [Publishing Modules](https://www.terraform.io/docs/modules/publish.html) page.

fixes #20636
2019-03-11 08:20:35 -07:00
Martin Atkins 9336c7fba3 website: Revamped module-authoring docs for Terraform v0.12
As well as some general consolidation and reorganizing, this also includes
some updated advice for making the best use of new Terraform v0.12
features to create infrastructure building-blocks.

In particular, the "Module Usage" documentation is now consolidated into
the configuration section in order to bring all of our general language
documentation together, and the top-level "Modules" section is now
primarily focused on module _authors_ as an audience, covering topics such
as publishing modules and designing them for reuse.
2019-03-05 14:14:06 -08:00
Martin Atkins f4bc502f51 website: Documentation for "terraform 0.12upgrade" 2019-02-26 10:27:51 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund 0a58004da4 website: Add JSON output format to nav sidebar 2019-02-20 18:40:44 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund d1daa7e518 website: Make 0.11 and 0.12 subsections of 'Configuration Language' 2019-02-01 17:20:54 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund a9bcc0fe06 website: Fix sidebar nav links and 'sidebar_current' IDs for 0.11 docs
Because of the different possibilities for arranging the nav sidebars, we want
to make sure:

- IDs for the 0.11 and 0.12 language docs have a common prefix.
- That prefix is not the exact string `docs-config`.

Have I mentioned before that I really dislike this prefix matching behavior.
2019-02-01 17:20:54 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund 11cfdf3b67 website: Add 0.11 configuration language docs (WIP)
This is a non-working commit, because a bunch of links (including the sidebar
nav) are broken. Using a transition commit like this makes it easier to see the
changes necessary to get this content woven into the site.
2019-02-01 17:20:54 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund 0fddabf972 website: Reorganize nav sidebars to improve jumps between sections 2019-01-31 16:18:23 -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
Nick Fagerlund ab88f8ca0f
website: Update and link the page about remote backend operations (#19203) 2018-10-29 11:00:24 -07:00
Martin Atkins e5e3452ffa website: Reorganize the "Configuration" docs section
With the additional configuration language features coming in Terraform
v0.12, our existing documentation structure is beginning to strain.

Here we reorganize the navigation slightly in order to introduce the
concepts in a more appropriate order so that we can reveal complexity
more gradually. Subsequent commits will revise the content of these
pages to better reflect the new sequencing.

The "Environment Variables" page is moved from the Configuration section
into the "Commands" section, since it is not considered a part of the
configuration language and thus more appropriate in the CLI documentation.
The old placement is reflective of the broader purpose that the
"Configuration" section had originally, but its new focus will be on
the Terraform language (.tf files) in particular, with other aspects of
customizing Terraforms behavior covered in other sections.
2018-10-16 18:46:46 -07:00
Luke Kysow 3eafbf3861 Add link to Terraform's GitHub Actions docs (#19091) 2018-10-16 10:36:04 -07:00
Brian Flad 9b295e2bc7 docs/internal: Fix sidebar navigation for Remote Service Discovery page 2018-03-13 12:49:49 -04:00
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
Chris Griggs 18975d7270 website: present provider documentation via categories
We have outgrown the single flat list presentation of providers due to the shear number now present, so we'll move here to a model where the providers are split into a number of categories that each contain a smaller list.

The full list is still included in the body of the main index page for quick access via search, but the categories make for a more accessible navbar for those who are just browsing.
2018-01-04 15:04:35 -08:00
Clint f43d66e143
Revert "Restructure terraform.io to include provider categories (#16934)" (#16966)
This reverts commit 7481c113ee.
2017-12-20 17:25:43 -06:00
Chris Griggs 7481c113ee Restructure terraform.io to include provider categories (#16934)
* add catagory files

* try new source path

* cleaning up formatting

* fixin

* add all providers to providers index page

* add descriptions

* add link to form and first two providers

* small edits

* small edits

* small changes

* add community providers and decription edit from marketing

* add some lines to improve design

* fix typos
2017-12-20 16:26:41 -06:00
Chris Marchesi c2c9e4f418
Merge pull request #16583 from hashicorp/azurerm-website
Renaming the Azure Provider
2017-12-19 11:00:33 -08:00
Maciej Skierkowski c1469aa39e Rename links for TFE classic and beta 2017-12-11 19:05:11 -08:00
clint shryock ccbd3db2b7 add opentelekomcloud link to docs 2017-12-08 16:45:33 -06:00
Nolan Davidson a50a383946 Additional work on the habitat provisioner.
Signed-off-by: Nolan Davidson <ndavidson@chef.io>
2017-12-07 16:29:30 -08:00
Chris Griggs 9d863fee62 website: Add the Null provider to the list of providers 2017-12-04 09:29:41 -08:00
tombuildsstuff 6bd275158d Microsoft Azure -> Azure 2017-11-07 15:35:34 +00:00
tombuildsstuff a64216de09 Removing the sidebar ref to the old Azure provider 2017-11-07 15:34:07 +00:00
Clint e2c69d4d6e
[WIP]: website: Add CloudScale Provider link (#16512)
* add cloudscale

* update link
2017-11-01 15:05:29 -05:00
Martin Atkins 4fa2b8c519 website: updated docs for the module registry protocol
Now includes more complete information on usage of private registries and
updates the module registry API documentation to include the new
version-enumeration endpoint along with describing Terraform's discovery
protocol.
2017-11-01 07:22:20 -07:00
devonbleak 3253367c64 Fix alphabetical ordering in providers sidebar 2017-10-17 07:40:45 -07:00
Clint 512591533c add logicmonitor provider (#16314) 2017-10-11 13:00:42 -05:00
Alex Tasioulis 4e6289dad0 website: change order of provisioners in sidebar list
Assume null_resource should also be ordered alphabetically
2017-10-01 22:03:39 +01:00
Alex Tasioulis 825a098c56 website: add salt-masterless provisioner to sidebar
Fixes #16226
2017-10-01 22:02:43 +01:00