We introduced this experiment to gather feedback, and the feedback we saw
led to us deciding to do another round of design work before we move
forward with something to meet this use-case.
In addition to being experimental, this has only been included in alpha
releases so far, and so on both counts it is not protected by the
Terraform v1.0 Compatibility Promises.
We're aware of several quirks of this command's current design, which
result from some existing architectural limitations that we can't address
immediately.
However, we do still want to make this command available in its current
capacity as an incremental improvement, so as a compromise we'll document
it as experimental. Our intent here is to exclude it from the
Terraform 1.0 Compatibility Promises so that we can have the space to
continue to improve the design as other parts of the overall Terraform
system gain new capabilities.
We don't currently have any concrete plan for this command to be
stabilized and subject to compatibility promises. That decision will
follow from ongoing discussions with other teams whose systems may need to
change in order to support the final design of "terraform add".
* website: Update or remove references to legacy provider docs
We've finally evicted the last of the legacy provider docs from terraform.io!
Let's celebrate by purging all memory of them.
The 0.11 docs are now so thoroughly legacy that I don't believe they need a new
destination for their provider links, so I just removed those.
* website: remove old provider docs index
This will require a redirect in the terraform-website repo.
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Laura Pacilio <83350965+laurapacilio@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Laura Pacilio <83350965+laurapacilio@users.noreply.github.com>
# shouldn't it be true if the error count is zero
error_count (number): A zero or positive whole number giving the count of errors Terraform detected. If valid is 'true' then error_count will always be zero, because it is the presence of errors that indicates that a configuration is invalid.
The -var command line option comes with the disadvantage that a user must
contend both with Terraform's own parser and with the parser in whichever
shell they've decided to use, and different shells on different platforms
have different rules.
Previously we've largely just assumed that folks know the appropriate
syntax for the shell they chose, but it seems that command lines involving
spaces and other special characters arise rarely enough in other commands
that Terraform is often the first time someone needs to learn the
appropriate syntax for their shell.
We can't possibly capture all of the details of all shells in our docs,
because that's far outside of our own scope, but hopefully this new
section will go some way to give some real examples that will help folks
figure out how to write suitable escape sequences, if they choose to
set complex variable values on the command line rather than in .tfvars
as we recommend elsewhere on this page.
