ANSIBLE PROVIDER FOR TERRAFORM | IT HAS ARRIVED! | HOW TO USE

Ansible has released a Terraform provider in an effort to make your life easier. Check it out here: registry.terraform.io/provide...
The blog post in which Ansible announced the release: www.ansible.com/blog/providin...
The cloud.terraform ansible collection:
galaxy.ansible.com/cloud/terr...

[@stefan3816]

This will be extremely useful! I love this level of integration, still a few improvements that can be made, sure, but this can be immensely powerful!

[@robertgoldstein5819]

have thought of using depends option on the ansible resource or some other form of delay?

[@TheSudo]

I did not attempt that.

[@robertgoldstein5819]

I tried it the v1.1 that came out, but maybe it's how the company requires so much hand holding (vaulting passwords and 2fa stuff) or something else.. the provider didn't work out property for me. instead I hacked it a bit a use file templates to generate the configuration and files. this seems to work smoother. then I run the playbooks separately and review the results.

[@bx1803]

yaaaass

[@dronenb]

Do you know if there's a way to use a state file that is in Terraform Cloud instead of local?

[@TheSudo]

Not with this plugin, no. You would have to use the terraform cloud API to download the state file locally.

[@dronenb]

@@TheSudo that’s what I was concluding as well. Regardless, thanks for the video. Im surprised it doesn’t have more views considering it seems to be the only video on KZbin at the moment on the topic.

[@dronenb]

@@TheSudo Actually I figured it out. The module uses the command "terraform show -json STATE_FILE" where STATE_FILE is, by default, the terraform.tfstate file. But you can set the state file name in the inventory with state_file: "" and since it's an empty string it's equivalent to running "terraform show -json" with no other arguments, which works with Terraform Cloud.

[@mase2hot225]

@@dronenb I'm confused how ansible will be able to access the state file in terraform cloud, as I see nowhere we can set where to look / authenticate?

[@dronenb]

@@mase2hot225 the Ansible inventory plugin calls the terraform CLI with the “terraform state” command IIRC and then parses the JSON

[@kennethkoffi29]

I spent hours trying to get it work. You forgot to mention that collection requires ansible version >=2.13.0 There's the command that fixed things for me: python3 -m pip install --upgrade ansible

[@gokulc7043]

Thanks mate

[@user-lt1lv3pv6y]

All the gard work now gone