Terraform Provider

• Website: https://www.terraform.io
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• Mailing list: Google Groups

Requirements

• Terraform 0.10.x
• Go 1.11 (to build the provider plugin)

Building the provider

Clone repository to: $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-metal

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers; cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers
$ git clone git@github.com:terraform-providers/terraform-provider-metal

Enter the provider directory and build the provider

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-metal
$ make build

Using the provider

The metal provider will be installed on terraform init of a template using any of the metal_* resources.

Available resource and datasources are documented at https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/metal/index.html.

Developing the provider

If you wish to work on the provider, you'll first need Go installed on your machine (version 1.11+ is required). You'll also need to correctly setup a GOPATH, as well as adding $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH.

To compile the provider, run make build. This will build the provider and put the provider binary in the $GOPATH/bin directory.

$ make bin
...
$ $GOPATH/bin/terraform-provider-metal
...

Testing provider code

We have mostly acceptance tests in the provider. There's no point for you to run them all, but you should run the one covering the functionality which you change. The acceptance test run will cost you some money, so feel free to abstain. The acceptance test suite will be run for your PR during the review process.

To run an acceptance test, find the relevant test function in *_test.go (for example TestAccMetalDevice_Basic), and run it as

TF_ACC=1 go test -v -timeout=20m -run=TestAccMetalDevice_Basic

If you want to see HTTP traffic, set TF_LOG=DEBUG, i.e.

TF_LOG=DEBUG TF_ACC=1 go test -v -timeout=20m -run=TestAccMetalDevice_Basic

Testing the provider with Terraform

Once you've built the plugin binary (see Developing the provider above), it can be incorporated within your Terraform environment using the -plugin-dir option. Subsequent runs of Terraform will then use the plugin from your development environment.

$ terraform init -plugin-dir $GOPATH/bin