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Nick Fagerlund 2bfec75bbf website: Update all links to {expressions,modules,resources}.html
...as well as to the standard module structure section in module development.
2020-11-17 16:30:51 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund 5e18e44037
Merge pull request #26723 from hashicorp/oct20_language_and_cli_docs
website: TF-153: Split core Terraform docs into "Language" and "CLI"
2020-11-11 19:31:05 -08:00
Robin Norwood ec7d9c85ac Update link to new varibles tutorial 2020-11-09 11:52:28 -08:00
Nick Fagerlund 596e529602 website: Adopt a ton of pages into the "language" layout
As of this commit, that layout doesn't exist yet, but I'm isolating the one-line
changes to their own commit to try and keep your eyes from glazing over.
2020-10-26 18:19:26 -07:00
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update some pages that contain outdated information about currently-active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
Pam Selle 4d01fc88fc Add sensitive variable docs for nested blocks
Add note to docs about nested block behavior for sensitive variables
2020-10-05 17:23:49 -04:00
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
Pam Selle 3ddbb4b009 Update provider caveat grammar 2020-10-01 13:19:14 -04:00
Pam Selle 93d38ff2d2 Update intro to code blocks 2020-10-01 13:16:15 -04:00
Pam Selle be50089c7f Rephrase sensitive index description 2020-10-01 13:12:25 -04:00
Pam Selle 09551de078 Rewrite intro to section, rename section, move state info
Move the information about state from the "caveats" to the main
info section, using similar information to sensitive outputs.
Updates the header of the section from similar inspiration.
2020-10-01 13:09:52 -04:00
Pam Selle 5cf61448e7
Update website/docs/configuration/variables.html.md
Co-authored-by: Kristin Laemmert <mildwonkey@users.noreply.github.com>
2020-10-01 12:58:43 -04:00
Pam Selle e369fe0559 Docs for sensitive variables 2020-09-30 11:57:03 -04:00
Pam Selle b57248533d Re-organize variable page for sensitive argument addition 2020-09-30 11:57:03 -04:00
Nick Fagerlund 56c0e35243 website: Fix copy-paste error 2020-09-02 14:57:06 -07:00
Nick Fagerlund a4776bfb40 website: Clarify `locals` vs. `local.thing` distinction
The subtle difference in keywords when creating vs. accessing locals trips
people up, even more than the "variable" vs. "var" distinction. It deserves its
own subheader on the page, plus a nice noisy callout.
2020-09-02 14:31:19 -07:00
Martin Atkins d1bc412220 configs: Custom variable validation is no longer experimental
All of the feedback from the experiment described enhancements that can
potentially be added later without breaking changes, so this change simply
removes the experiment gate from the feature as originally implemented
with no changes to its functionality.

Further enhancements may follow in later releases, but the goal of this
change is just to ship the feature exactly as it was under the experiment.

Most of the changes here are cleaning up the experiment opt-ins from our
test cases. The most important parts are in configs/experiments.go and in
experiments/experiment.go .
2020-05-28 16:07:59 -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
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
The Terraform Team 9b6fcc4e86
Merge pull request #22755 from echernyavskiy/patch-1
website/docs: Fix typo in variables.html
2019-09-17 11:46:57 -04:00
Nick Fagerlund 655bbfdf28 website: Add complex type example to variables.html 2019-09-13 12:58:15 -07:00
Evgeny Chernyavskiy 5f16669362
Fix typo in variables.html 2019-09-10 10:29:37 -04:00
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
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
Justin Weissig 7335f1fdc8 docs: fixed typo (#21297)
Spelling: varable/variable.
2019-05-21 15:55:44 -04:00
Justin Weissig 299e0432bc
Fixed typo
Fixed typo: cafeful/careful.
2019-04-30 00:06:01 -07:00
Kristin Laemmert 39ef97beff
website: adding examples of complex variables on the command line (#20871) 2019-04-01 07:51:17 -04:00
Kristin Laemmert 21f6e3dffd
Mildwonkey/012 docs updated (#20542)
* docs: update plan command documentation. Fixes #19235

* docs: added a missing reserved variable name. Fixes #19159.

* website: add note that resource names cannot start with a number

* website: add some notes to the 0.12 upgrade guide
2019-03-01 12:30:51 -08:00
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 eeb96b1e12 website: Revise the "Modules" configuration docs section
This adopts a more guide-like writing style, similar to what prior commits
have done to some other subsections of this section.

Since we already have a whole top-level section devoted to modules, there
is no need for full coverage of all of their features here. Instead, this
section focuses on an an initial introduction to what modules are and
the basics of their usage within the Terraform language. We then link
to the main modules section for the full details.
2018-10-16 18:47:33 -07:00
Martin Atkins f8f2ff2202 website: Revise the "Input Variables" configuration docs section
This adopts a more guide-like writing style, similar to what prior commits
have done to the Resources and Providers sections.
2018-10-16 18:47:33 -07:00
Andrew 2b68f4393e website: explanation of TF_VAR_ precedence
Fixes #15595
2017-12-05 11:27:31 -08:00
Martin Atkins f3a2165587 website: Use "Input Variable" as full term for var.foo
We've historically been somewhat inconsistent in how we refer to the
type of object defined by "variable" blocks in configuration. Parts of
our documentation refer to them as "input variables" or just "variables",
while our implementation refers to them as "user variables".

Since Terraform Registry is now also referring to these as "Inputs", here
we standardize on "Input Variable" as the fully-qualified name for this
concept, with "variable" being a shorthand for this where context is
obvious. Outside of this context, anything that can be referred to in
an interpolation expression is generically known as a "variable", with
Input Variables being just one kind, specified by the "var." prefix.

While this terminology shift is not critical yet, it will become more
important as we start to document the new version of the configuration
language so we can use the generic meaning of "variable" there.
2017-11-09 11:08:09 -08:00
Martin Atkins 91a4af9c8a website: rewrite modules usage documentation for new features
The modules mechanism has changed quite a bit for version 0.11 and so
although simple usage remains broadly compatible there are some
significant changes in the behavior of more complex modules.

Since large parts of this were rewritten anyway, I also took the
opportunity to do some copy-editing to make the prose on this page more
consistent with our usual editorial voice and to wrap the long
lines.
2017-11-01 07:22:20 -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
Robert Liebowitz 8d98fdecac Autoload only .auto.tfvars files 2017-07-05 17:24:17 -07:00
Robert Liebowitz 006744bfe0 Use all tfvars files in working directory
As a side effect, several commands that previously did not have a failure
state can now fail during meta-parameter processing.
2017-07-05 17:24:17 -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