Is it possible to create a kubernetes_manifest without deploying it on the cluster?

[maonat]

Terraform version, Kubernetes provider version and Kubernetes version

Terraform version: Terraform v1.3.1
Kubernetes Provider version: 2.16.1
Kubernetes version: 1.24.6

Terraform configuration

resource "kubernetes_manifest" "test" {
  manifest = {
    // ...
  }
}

Question

is there a way to NOT deploy the manifest on the cluster?
I want to use the kubernetes_manifest as validator only which will help me creating multiple manifests without deploying them as I use FLUX and reconciliation for that.
I wasn't able to find anything on the documentation. Thanks!

[alexsomesan]

Planning kubernetes_manifest resources actually validates against the resource schema from the cluster, so that should be quite a bit of validation already done.

I'm not sure I fully understand the ask here. Do you need to generate some sort of output from the resources other than applying to the cluster?

[maonat]

@alexsomesan

I need to be able to run a terraform apply without having the kubernetes manifest applied on the cluster.

I would like to find myself in a position to create a kubernetes_manifest without the need of applying it because I have flux that apply any manifest i push into the git repository.

So basically my objective is to generate a kubernetes manifest which will be saved on GitHub (thanks to the github provider) without making it apply because of the kubernetes_manifest functionality and this is not possible at the moment.

I hope I explained myself better! Thanks

[maonat]

Hello, any update on this?

[marziply]

@maonat

Potentially linked to https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-kubernetes/issues/1917

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[maonat]

Hi, time passed and no update in this... Anyone able to provide some alternatives perhaps?

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