Prior to Terraform v0.12 it was possible for a provider to secretly set
some default arguments for the "connection" block, which most commonly
included a hard-coded type of "ssh" and a value from "host".
In the interests of "explicit is better than implicit", Terraform 0.12 no
longer has this feature and instead requires connection settings to be
written explicitly in terms of the resource's exported attributes. For
compatibility though, the upgrade tool will insert expressions that are
as close as possible to the logic the provider formerly implemented, or
in a few rare cases a TF-UPGRADE-TODO comment to fix it up manually.
Some of the existing resource type implementations have incredibly
complicated implementations of selecting a single host IP address to use
and don't expose the result of that as an attribute, so for now we handle
those via a complicated Terraform language expression achieving the same
result. Ideally these providers would introduce a new attribute that
exports the same address formerly exported as the hostname before their
initial v0.12-compatible release, in which case we can simplify these to
just reference the attribute in question. That would be preferable also
because it would allow use of that exported attribute in other contexts,
such as in a null_resource provisioner somewhere else or in an output
to allow a caller to deal with the SSH part itself.
This uses the fixed "superset" schema from the main terraform package to
apply our standard expression mapping, with the exception of "type" where
interpolation sequences are not supported due to the type being evaluated
early to retrieve the schema for decoding the rest.
Aside from the two special meta-arguments "connection" and "provisioner"
this is just our standard mapping from schema to conversion rules, using
the provisioner's configuration schema.
Due to a copy-paste error, this was using the message from the providers
map in a "module" block.
This new message is not particularly helpful, but we should only see it
for a configuration that wouldn't have been valid in 0.11 either, and so
it's unlikely to be displayed.
Although /intro/getting-started includes docs content, those pages currently
redirect to the Learn platform, and so shouldn't be affected by the large unfurl
image.
Although sets do not have indexed elements, in Terraform 0.11 and earlier
element(...) would work with sets because we'd automatically convert them
to lists on entry to HIL -- with an arbitrary-but-consistent ordering --
and this return an arbitrary-but-consistent element from the list.
The element(...) function in Terraform 0.12 does not allow this because it
is not safe in general, but there was an existing pattern relying on this
in Terraform 0.11 configs which this upgrade rule is intended to preserve:
resource "example" "example" {
count = "${length(any_set_attribute)}"
foo = "${element(any_set_attribute, count.index}"
}
The above works because the exact indices assigned in the conversion are
irrelevant: we're just asking Terraform to create one resource for each
distinct element in the set.
This upgrade rule therefore inserts an explicit conversion to list if it
is able to successfully provide that the given expression will return a
set type:
foo = "${element(tolist(any_set_attribute), count.index}"
This makes the conversion explicit, allowing users to decide if it is
safe and rework the configuration if not. Since our static type analysis
functionality focuses mainly on resource type attributes, in practice this
rule will only apply when the given expression is a statically-checkable
resource reference. Since sets are an SDK-only concept in Terraform 0.11
and earlier anyway, in practice that works out just right: it's not
possible for sets to appear anywhere else in older versions anyway.
Paul Tyng