terraform-docs-setup.md

Overview

Terraform-Docs is a utility to generate documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats. Use the following code to use GitHub actions to automate Terraform module documentation from pull requests.

Steps

To use terraform-docs github action, create a YAML workflow file .github/workflows/documentation.yml in your main repo, with the following code:

name: Generate terraform docs
on:
  - pull_request
jobs:
  docs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      with:
        ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}

    - name: Render terraform docs inside the README.md and push changes back to PR branch
      uses: terraform-docs/gh-actions@v1.0.0
      with:
        working-dir: .
        output-file: README.md
        output-method: inject
        git-push: "true"

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Overview

Terraform-Docs is a utility to generate documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats. Use the following code to use GitHub actions to automate Terraform module documentation from pull requests.

Steps

To use terraform-docs github action, create a YAML workflow file .github/workflows/documentation.yml in your main repo, with the following code:

name: Generate terraform docs
on:
  - pull_request
jobs:
  docs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      with:
        ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}

    - name: Render terraform docs inside the README.md and push changes back to PR branch
      uses: terraform-docs/gh-actions@v1.0.0
      with:
        working-dir: .
        output-file: README.md
        output-method: inject
        git-push: "true"