Design: Improved TFC integration for multi-stack projects

[DanielMSchmidt]

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Description

Currently we only create the first stack for users using TFC when running init, all other stacks need to be created manually. The goal of this issue is to find a nicer way to manage multiple workspaces (and their secrets / run triggers / ...?) and propose a solution / vision for how we want to tackle this problem.

References

• https://github.com/DanielMSchmidt/cdktf-multi-stack-tfe is a user-land approach to this

[ansgarm]

This issue is slightly related: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/issues/670

[DanielMSchmidt]

Yeah, though I'd like to include more day2 things here in addition to "just" auto creating like managing secrets etc.

[nikolay]

@DanielMSchmidt The following dependency for supporting TFC! I am not sure why this hasn't been available since day 1 - don't you guys use Terraform v1.1+ and TFC at HashiCorp?!

[DanielMSchmidt]

Sorry there is some misunderstanding happening here, we support TFC. The issue you are referencing is about a the current way of using terraform cloud (through the remote backend) is being deprecated by Terraform, so we should start supporting the new (through the cloud backend).

[nikolay]

@DanielMSchmidt It behaves differently, it's not just deprecation. By using "remote", you can't override sensitive remote variable - you can only do this with "cloud" backend. The "remote" backend comes with a bug, which, for some strange reason, was only fixed in "cloud".

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