Terraform Rancher apps

[michalformanek]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

We are using Terraform to manage Rancher apps and catalogs. These are esentially equivalent to Helm resources, which can be automatically updated by Renovate. Would it be possible to implement the same functionality for Rancher apps and catalogs?

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/rancher/rancher2/latest/docs/resources/app_v2
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/rancher/rancher2/latest/docs/resources/catalog_v2

Examples of these two resources used together:
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/rancher/rancher2/latest/docs/guides/apps_marketplace#examples-1

Did you already have any implementation ideas?
It might be easy to add new branch to switch here - https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/blob/main/lib/manager/terraform/resources.ts#L98 We can even extract function from there, only difference is is obtaining registry url, which in case of catalogs is in another resource

[secustor]

Definitely possible especially as we have already helm and git datasources, but we do not resolve references between resources at the moment. Because of that, the implementation will not be as simple as adding an additional case.

For reference what is needed for the implementation:

• rather use extractAllPackageFiles than extractPackageFile
• extract all relevant objects
• resolve references between.

This could be later on integrated with variable resolution if combined with something akin to getSiblingFilesWithExtension(filename, fileExtension) to extract variables from separate files.

[github-actions]

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[rarkins]

As a first step let's get a minimal reproduction repo showing such a use case (particularly references between).

[nerok]

Hi,
I have the same need, here is a minimal reproduction based on my needs: https://github.com/nerok/Minimal-reproduction-for-renovate-to-work-with-rancher-provider-in-terraform