Terraform CLI Config File MacOS and LinuxOS
Step-01: Introduction
- Terraform CLI Config File
- Understand about
Terraform CLI Config File
- Windows: terraform.rc
- Linux, MacOS: .terraformrc
- Understand about
plugin_cache_dir
# Change Directory
cd $HOME
# Create Terraform CLI Config File
touch .terraformrc
# Update File
vi $HOME/.terraformrc
plugin_cache_dir = "$HOME/.terraform.d/plugin-cache"
disable_checkpoint = true
# Create Directory
mkdir -p $HOME/.terraform.d/plugin-cache
# Change Directory
cd 65-Terraform-CLI-Config-File-MacOS-and-Linux/terraform-manifests
# Terraform Initialize
terraform init
# Verify the contents in Plugin Cache Directory
ls -lrta $HOME/.terraform.d/plugin-cache
cd $HOME/.terraform.d/plugin-cache
ls
cd $HOME/.terraform.d/plugin-cache/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/
ls
Step-05: Verify if plugins loaded from Cache
# Change Directory
cd 65-Terraform-CLI-Config-File-MacOS-and-Linux/terraform-manifests
# Remove .terraform Folder which contains plugins
rm -rf .terraform*
# Terraform Initialize
terraform init
# Sample Output for Reference
Kalyans-Mac-mini:terraform-manifests kalyanreddy$ terraform init
Initializing the backend...
Initializing provider plugins...
- Finding hashicorp/azurerm versions matching ">= 2.0.0"...
- Finding hashicorp/random versions matching ">= 3.0.0"...
- Finding hashicorp/external versions matching ">= 2.0.0"...
- Using hashicorp/random v3.1.0 from the shared cache directory
- Using hashicorp/external v2.1.0 from the shared cache directory
- Using hashicorp/azurerm v2.65.0 from the shared cache directory
# Observation
1. You can see provider plugins downloaded from "shared cache directory"
Step-07: Clean-Up
# Remove .terraform Folder which contains plugins
rm -rf .terraform*
- You can define Terraform Cloud Credentials globally using
.terraformrc file in your $HOME directroy with a token
- Terraform Cloud Credentials
credentials "app.terraform.io" {
token = "xxxxxx.atlasv1.zzzzzzzzzzzzz"
}