Terraform output needs an option to exclude the provider block

[jaygorrell]

Since one of the primary purposes of the Terraform output is to fit into an existing TF environment, the provider block is likely to already exist. It would be great if there were a simple flag to --include-provider=[true|false].

It may even make sense to default to false given what I assume to be the more common workflow.

[justinsb]

Great suggestion - I'll see what can be done.

[shamil]

This can be easily done using terrsform itself, not sure putting that logic inside kops will not over complicate things. kops should keep things simple.

Terraform supports overrides nativelly. So you could put an override.tf file in the same directory where kops outputs the terraform confgs. The override.tf file could contain something like:

provider "aws" {
  region = "us-east-1"
  access_key = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
  secret_key = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
}

That's it, now when you apply the configs, terraform will know to use your provider instead of kops's one. In my case I do lot's of overrides without affecting kops generated configs whatsoever. Works for me for long time without issues.

Read more about terraform overrides: https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/override.html

[jaygorrell]

I'll defer to @justinsb on the ticket itself but that's a really great suggestion, @shamil. It should solve my specific problem... thanks!

[krisnova]

@justinsb - Stretch goal for 1.4.2

[justinsb]

Slight problem ... we need to specify the region. That's why we're outputing the block (there is nothing else in there). Is there a terraform trick I'm missing?