Several top-level block types in the Terraform language have a body where
two different schemas are overlayed on top of one another: Terraform first
looks for "meta-arguments" that are built into the language, and then
evaluates all of the remaining arguments against some externally-defined
schema whose content is not fully controlled by Terraform.
So far we've been cautiously adding new meta-arguments in these namespaces
after research shows us that there are relatively few existing providers
or modules that would have functionality masked by those additions, but
that isn't really a viable path forward as we prepare to make stronger
compatibility promises.
In an earlier commit we've introduced the foundational parts of a new
language versioning mechanism called "editions" which should allow us to
make per-module-opt-in breaking changes in the future, but these shared
namespaces remain a liability because it would be annoying if adopting a
new edition made it impossible to use a feature of a third-party provider
or module that was already using a name that has now become reserved in
the new edition.
This commit introduces a new syntax intended to be a rarely-used escape
hatch for that situation. When we're designing new editions we will do our
best to choose names that don't conflict with commonly-used providers and
modules, but there are many providers and modules that we cannot see and
so there is a risk that any name we might choose could collide with at
least one existing provider or module. The automatic migration tool to
upgrade an existing module to a new edition should therefore detect that
situation and make use of this escaping block syntax in order to retain
the existing functionality until all the called providers or modules are
updated to no longer use conflicting names.
Although we can't put in technical constraints on using this feature for
other purposes (because we don't know yet what future editions will add),
this mechanism is intentionally not documented for now because it serves
no immediate purpose. In effect, this change is just squatting on the
syntax of a special block type named "_" so that later editions can make
use of it without it _also_ conflicting, creating a confusing nested
escaping situation. However, the first time a new edition actually makes
use of this syntax we should then document alongside the meta-arguments
so folks can understand the meaning of escaping blocks produced by
edition upgrade tools.
Remove chef, habitat, puppet, and salt-masterless provsioners,
which follows their deprecation. Update the documentatin for these
provisioners to clarify that they have been removed from later versions
of Terraform. Adds the fmt Make target back and updates fmtcheck script
for correctness.
Add deprecation warning for references from destroy provisioners or
their connections to external resources or values. In order to ensure
resource destruction can be completed correctly, destroy nodes must be
able to evaluate with only their instance state.
We have sufficient information to validate destroy-time provisioners
early on during the config loading process. Later on these can be
converted to hard errors, and only allow self, count.index, and each.key
in destroy provisioners. Limited the provisioner and block evaluation
scope later on is tricky, but if the references can never be loaded,
then they will never be encountered during evaluation.
Previously we were using the experimental HCL 2 repository, but now we'll
shift over to the v2 import path within the main HCL repository as part of
actually releasing HCL 2.0 as stable.
This is a mechanical search/replace to the new import paths. It also
switches to the v2.0.0 release of HCL, which includes some new code that
Terraform didn't previously have but should not change any behavior that
matters for Terraform's purposes.
For the moment the experimental HCL2 repository is still an indirect
dependency via terraform-config-inspect, so it remains in our go.sum and
vendor directories for the moment. Because terraform-config-inspect uses
a much smaller subset of the HCL2 functionality, this does still manage
to prune the vendor directory a little. A subsequent release of
terraform-config-inspect should allow us to completely remove that old
repository in a future commit.
We want the forthcoming v0.12.0 release to be the last significant
breaking change to our main configuration constructs for a long time, but
not everything could be implemented in that release.
As a compromise then, we reserve various names we have some intent of
using in a future release so that such future uses will not be a further
breaking change later.
Some of these names are associated with specific short-term plans, while
others are reserved conservatively for possible later work and may be
"un-reserved" in a later release if we don't end up using them. The ones
that we expect to use in the near future were already being handled, so
we'll continue to decode them at the config layer but also produce an
error so that we don't get weird behavior downstream where the
corresponding features don't work yet.
In our new loader we are changing certain values in configuration to be
naked keywords or references rather than quoted strings as before. Since
many of these have been shown in books, tutorials, and our own
documentation we will make the old forms generate deprecation warnings
rather than errors so that newcomers starting from older documentation
can be eased into the new syntax, rather than getting blocked.
This will also avoid creating a hard compatibility wall for reusable
modules that are already published, allowing them to still be used in
spite of these warnings and then fixed when the maintainer is able.
This is a first pass of decoding of the main Terraform configuration file
format. It hasn't yet been tested with any real-world configurations, so
it will need to be revised further as we test it more thoroughly.
Martin Atkins