Create Provider

Subcommand provider of terragen create generates scaffolds for a specified provider under the directory it is invoked or under specified directory.

terragen create provider --help would help in listing all available flags of terragen create provider.

Command to generate scaffolds for terraform provider and its other components.
               This includes creation of provider, resource, datasource.

Usage:
  terragen create provider [args] [flags]

Flags:
  -d, --data-source strings   name of the data scaffold
      --datasource-required   enable if data_source requires scaffold
  -h, --help                  help for provider
  -i, --importer string       name of the importer scaffold
      --importer-required     enable if importer requires scaffold
  -g, --repo-group string     repo group to which the terraform provider to be part of
  -r, --resource strings      name of the resource scaffold
      --resource-required     enable if resource requires scaffold

Global Flags:
      --dry-run       dry-run the process of provider scaffold creation
  -p, --path string   path where the templates has to be generated (default ".")

Usage

• Let us understand how can we generate scaffolds for a project hashicups (recreating Hashicorp’s demo provider).
• Initial scaffolds for the provider can be generated by running terragen create provider hashicups.
• Be sure about the folder under which the command is executed. Since no flag --path is used, it generates scaffolds under the directory from where the command is fired.
• Once scaffolds are generated, it can be verified by looking at metadata file terragen.yml for all information about scaffolded provider.
• If datasource or resources needs to be created during initial scaffold generation, make sure you invoke terragen create provider hashicups with flags --data-source, resource.
• Both flags --data-source, resource accepts list, When more than one of kind is required pass multiple instances of it.
  • With multiple data-sources: terragen create provider hashicups --data-source hashicups_coffees --data-source hashicups_ingredients
  • With resources: terragen create provider hashicups --resource hashicups_order
  • Note: For generating all of these scaffolds repo-group github.com/nikhilsbhat is being used.
• With all of these now the metadata for the project looks like:

version: 1.0.0
repo-group: github.com/nikhilsbhat
project-module: github.com/nikhilsbhat/terraform-provider-hashicups
provider: hashicups
provider-path: /Users/sample/my-opensource/terraform-provider-test
resources:
  - hashicups_order
data-sources:
  - hashicups_coffees
  - hashicups_ingredients
importers:
  - ""

• More data-sources and resources can be scaffolded to the existing provider, to achieve the same use appropriate sub-commands.

Configuration