Terraform Extensions Provider

This is a plugin for HashiCorp Terraform, which provides one with abilities to:

• Fetch remote resources by URLs
• Use variables with interpolated values
• Create local files/directories

Usage

• Download the plugin from Releases page.
• Install it, or put into a directory with configuration files.
• Create a sample configuration file example.tf:

data "ext_remote" "readme" {
  url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxmanuylov/terraform-provider-ext/master/README.md"
}

data "ext_var" "readme_storage_path" {
  value = "${path.root}/readme_storage"
}

resource "ext_local_dir" "readme_storage" {
  path = "${data.ext_var.readme_storage_path.value}"
  permissions = "777"
}

resource "ext_local_file" "readme" {
  path = "${ext_local_dir.readme_storage.dir}/README.md"
  content = "${data.ext_remote.readme.content}"
  permissions = "644"
}

• Run:

$ terraform apply

The "ext_remote" resource / data source type

Fetches resource content from the specified URL and provides it as a computed attribute. Data source performs fetch on every refresh, while resource caches the result and refetches it only in case of URL change.

Mandatory Parameters

• url - remote resource URL to fetch

Computed Parameters

• content - fetched content

The "ext_local_dir" resource type

Manages the local directory by the specified path. All parent directories are created as well if needed.

Mandatory Parameters

• path - local directory path

Optional Parameters

• permissions - string with octal directory permissions (e.g. "644")

Computed Parameters

• dir - equal to path but is set after the directory is created (so you can depend on this resource and be sure the directory already exists by the time you use it)

The "ext_local_file" resource type

Saves the specified content to the local file.

Mandatory Parameters

• path - local file path
• content - content to save

Optional Parameters

• permissions - string with octal file permissions (e.g. "644")

Computed Parameters

• file - equal to path but is set after the file is written (so you can depend on this resource and be sure the file already exists by the time you use it)

The "ext_var" data source type

Provides simple named variable. Unlike the built-in Terraform variables these variables can have interpolations in its values.

Mandatory Parameters

• value - variable value

The "ext_svar" data source type

Same as above, but its value is marked as sensitive to be not displayed in logs.