v0.19.0

Notable Updates

Changelog

Features

• 5a2f6ff add docker multiarch build

Bug Fixes

• 78e94da fix: Replace <br> with <br /> for markdown syntax
• af31cc6 fix: release scripts
• 3c44c58 Fix: Let Docker image be built correctly for non-amd64 platforms

Dependency updates

• 7da557a chore(deps): bump docker/build-push-action from 5 to 6
• c825b41 chore(deps): bump library/alpine from 3.20.0 to 3.20.2
• 5441df2 chore(deps): bump library/alpine from 3.20.2 to 3.20.3
• a639fbd chore(deps): bump library/alpine in /scripts/release
• a2f4573 chore(deps): bump library/golang from 1.23.0-alpine to 1.23.1-alpine

Chores

• 045e5e6 Bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.64.0 to 1.64.1
• db5e64c Bump goreleaser/goreleaser-action from 5 to 6
• 0562dbd Bump library/alpine from 3.20.0 to 3.20.2 in /scripts/release
• 7de82c8 Bump library/golang from 1.22.3-alpine to 1.23.0-alpine
• d64cd3b Release version v0.19.0
• 8ae3344 chore: bump version to v0.19.0-alpha
• c2e8d0a chore: fix linter issues
• 3355644 chore: update go dependencies
• 0db6eef chore: update go to 1.23.1
• 11270e3 chore: update staticcheck to 2024.1.1
• 186bd7e chore: update teaser image
• 4c94478 ci: Use correct env var for repo owner
• 62756ca ci: Use correct var for repo owner (second try)
• 1919452 ci: enhance release workflows
• 49fde02 ci: fix release scripts
• a97e171 ci: kickoff actions run

Docker images

• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:latest
• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:0.19.0

Contributors

Very special thanks to the contributors.

• @brittandeyoung
• @ganievs
• @khos2ow
• @pascal-hofmann
• @ganievs
• @christophe-scalepad
• @dependabot[bot]
• @tf-docs-bot
• @Tenzer

v0.18.0

Notable Updates

The most notable changes in this release are:

• Resources can get ignored using terraform-docs-ignore comment:

  All types of resources can be ignored from the generated output by prepending them
  with a comment terraform-docs-ignore.

  ##################################################################
  # All of the following will be ignored from the generated output #
  ##################################################################
  
  # terraform-docs-ignore
  resource "foo_resource" "foo" {}
  
  # This resource is going to get ignored from generated
  # output by using the following known comment.
  #
  # terraform-docs-ignore
  #
  # The ignore keyword also doesn't have to be the first,
  # last, or the only thing in a leading comment
  resource "bar_resource" "bar" {}
  
  # terraform-docs-ignore
  data "foo_data_resource" "foo" {}
  
  # terraform-docs-ignore
  data "bar_data_resource" "bar" {}
  
  // terraform-docs-ignore
  module "foo" {
    source  = "foo"
    version = "x.x.x"
  }
  
  # terraform-docs-ignore
  variable "foo" {
    default = "foo"
  }
  
  // terraform-docs-ignore
  output "foo" {
    value = "foo"
  }

• Skip root module documentation while executing recursively:

  The main module document is generated by default, but should the main module document be
  excluded from document generation, --recursive-include-main=false can be used or alternatively
  in the .terraform-docs.yml:

  recursive:
    enabled: true
    path: modules
    include-main: false

Changelog

Features

• 943489c Ignore inputs with terraform-docs-ignore comment
• 8f74fd4 feat: ignore outputs, providers, resources with comments
• d0862bd Update Dockerfile FROM command to use non-ambiguous container sources
• 59eb90f Make main module doc optional when in recursive generation

Bug Fixes

• 656f6a6 Fix output values with null
• d5a55ae more fixes of binary name with missing s
• 1b2dbab more fixes of binary name with missing s
• 29e186a Fixed binary name in description output

Chores

• 5e77bcc Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4
• 21313cf Bump actions/setup-go from 3 to 5
• 89b52d5 Bump alpine from 3.18.5 to 3.19.0
• 01435d7 Bump alpine from 3.19.0 to 3.19.1
• b87d0e0 Bump alpine from 3.19.1 to 3.20.0 in /scripts/release
• 50a8858 Bump codecov/codecov-action from 1 to 3
• e729518 Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3 to 4
• 70ed14e Bump dawidd6/action-homebrew-bump-formula from 3.10.1 to 3.11.0
• 73ae81c Bump dawidd6/action-homebrew-bump-formula from 3.8.0 to 3.10.1
• 127dba6 Bump docker/login-action from 1 to 3
• 4dc7807 Bump github/codeql-action from 1 to 3
• 7a00604 Bump golang from 1.21.5-alpine to 1.22.1-alpine
• a321c28 Bump golang to 1.22.1
• d6331c1 Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.19.0 to 0.23.0
• 5a70c7a Bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.31.0 to 1.33.0
• ff0ce44 Bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.31.0 to 1.33.0
• ca3eea1 Bump goreleaser/goreleaser-action from 2 to 5
• 38fc0e6 Bump softprops/action-gh-release from 1 to 2
• f92cf6f Bump version to v0.18.0-alpha
• 6041ae9 Change dependabot cadence to daily
• 159bc83 Create dependabot file
• e5a9ee0 --- updated-dependencies: - dependency-name: alpine dependency-type: direct:production update-type: version-update:semver-patch ...
• 75e05c0 --- updated-dependencies: - dependency-name: golang dependency-type: direct:production update-type: version-update:semver-patch ...
• 228c7a7 Release version v0.18.0
• 656aa7c Update go crypto lib to v0.17.0
• 2b71b4d chore: add release-cut workflow
• d5e48a5 chore: add scripts/release/ folder to dependabot
• fde40b1 chore: bump alpine to 3.20.0
• b79a7c4 chore: bump golang to 1.22.3
• 288faea chore: update dependencies
• 740e0a8 go get -u github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2, update to v0.20.1 to support provider functions

Docker images

• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:latest
• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:0.18.0

Contributors

Very special thanks to the contributors.

• @blakegong
• @brittandeyoung
• @honghee99
• @kampka
• @EppO
• @goruha
• @idelsink
• @khos2ow
• @lb1a
• @tf-docs-bot

v0.17.0

Changelog

Features

• 38a327a Add fish shell completion
• e72f215 Always convert CRLF to LF for output description
• eb2e3b7 fix completion installing command
• 230113f Move terraform-docs bin in a folder already in the Linux PATH
• 5727f8b Preserve whitespaces of provided content and template
• 65b37fb Update OpenSSL package to mitigate CVE-2023-5363

Bug Fixes

• 4132916 Fix CI linting
• 3467aa9 Fix faulty license headers
• b4d62c8 Fix spelling
• a375aa7 fix spaces
• 9449cf8 fix typo

Chores

• 4eb50ae Bump alpine to 3.14.2
• c51e1ac Bump alpine to 3.16.0
• e5abff0 Bump alpine to 3.18.5
• 6f4b4d8 Bump golang to 1.17.6
• 8423fc0 Bump golang to 1.18.10
• 61f0423 Bump golang to 1.18.3
• 47bb0d2 Bump golang to 1.21.5
• f093753 Bump golangci-lint to 1.47.2 and fix issues
• 5cfb2f2 Bump golangci-lint to 1.55.2 and fix issues
• 9fa02e7 Bump staticcheck to 2023.1.6
• b37d2dc Bump version to v0.17.0-alpha
• a74d0f4 Bump version to v1.0.0-alpha
• a89c52e Enhance release script
• ac2f987 Update actions/checkout to v3
• 040b27b Update actions/setup-go to v3
• 5fad7ab Update go dependencies
• 649f1c4 Update go module dependencies
• 4552242 Update go module dependencies
• 82eaf8b Update goreleaser/goreleaser-actiona to v3
• 89666c0 Update container to Alpine 3.18.2 and Go 1.18.10
• 5638b29 Update Alpine base image to 3.16.1
• 21a9745 Upgrade Google Cloud Go packages in go.sum
• bb12a12 Remove Scalr sponsorship
• 090efce Run make fmt

Docker images

• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:latest
• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:0.17.0

Contributors

Very special thanks to the contributors.

• @Aurelian-Shuttleworth
• @blakegong
• @EppO
• @FlorentPoinsaut
• @khos2ow
• @levinotik
• @tbriot
• @x4e-jonas
• @yutaro1985

v0.16.0

Changelog

Features

f613750 Add 'HideEmpy' section bool flag
6f97f67 Add abitlity to partially override config from submodules
de684ce Add public ReadConfig function
54dc0f5 Add recursive config to .terraform-docs.yml file
89648f7 Add sprig functions to built-in template functions
f3c9238 Extract leading comments for resources and modules
045707b feat: Add new flag 'read-comments' to optionally process comments as description

Bug Fixes

5a1210b Skip read lines from empty file

Refactoring

465dd14 Make terraform.Module available in content
90942f7 Move format package from internal to public
4a9ffe7 Move plugin-sdk to in-tree in core repository
d2fe2b1 Move print package from internal to public
b3ff514 Move template package from internal to public
ca8f833 Move template package from internal to public

Chores

f33826c Cleanup documentations
bb10971 Deprecate Settings and Options in favor of Config
3d2b878 Overhaul README and docs improvements
1ae5fd9 Restructure configurations docs
0ad14a3 Restructure how-tos docs
628f2c6 Update Netlify config and build CI

Docker images

• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:latest
• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:0.16.0

Contributors

Very special thanks to the contributors.

• @bcdady
• @khos2ow
• @katsadim
• @poojitha-bikki
• @u5surf

v0.15.0

Notable Updates

The most notable changes in this release are:

• Generate submodules documents with --recursive flag

  Considering the file structure below of main module and its submodules, now it is possible to generate documentation for them main and all its submodules in one execution.

  Note that generating documentation recursively is allowed only with --output-file set.

  Path to find submodules can be configured with --recursive-path (defaults to modules).

  Each submodule can also have their own .terraform-docs.yml config file, to override configuration from root module.

  .
  ├── README.md
  ├── main.tf
  ├── modules
  │   └── my-sub-module
  │       ├── README.md
  │       ├── main.tf
  │       ├── variables.tf
  │       └── versions.tf
  ├── outputs.tf
  ├── variables.tf
  └── versions.tf
  

• Ignore extracting versions from terraform.lock.hcl

  New flag, --lockfile, is added to control whether ignore reading .terraform.lock.hcl file in an attempt to extract the exact version of provider being used or not. Default is true.

  If set to true, exact version of provider available in lock file at the time of execution will be extracted. If set to false, the version in .tf file will be used (either exact, or a constrained version: >=, ~>, ...)

• The updated order of trying to look up for .terraform-docs.yml config file, now, is:

  1. root of module directory
  2. .config/ folder at root of module directory
  3. current directory
  4. .config/ folder at current directory
  5. $HOME/.tfdocs.d/

• add output-check option for outputs

  This option can be used to compare content of target file with generated output by terraform-doc and fail if different.

• Remove --show-all, --hide-all, and --sort-by-XXX flags. (which have been deprecated in v0.13.0)

Changelog

Features

d77324c Add new '--show all' and '--hide all' sections
d004771 Add support for generating Packer document
f46a48b Attempt looking up config file in .config folder
1450ee9 Generate submodules documents with '--recursive' flag
5256426 Ignore extracting versions from terraform.lock.hcl
25f03b4 Remove deprecated '--show-all' and '--hide-all' flags
258f460 Remove deprecated '--sort-by-XXX' flags
21eaab4 add output-check option for outputs

Bug Fixes

ab05309 Process \n as line break in --output-template flag
c14edaf Properly format indented code blocks
61cc005 Render resources without URL correctly in Markdown and Asciidoc

Chores

8a288b5 Add Scalr sponsorship
af68ca2 Add new example for MacOs Install docs
77bc780 Bump alpine to 3.14.0
dfd1256 Bump golang to 1.16.6-alpine
bb1e21a Cosmetic cleanup asciidoc module table
490644e Increase test coverage for Config
209ed66 Upgrade go dependencies
567cfcc updating how-to doc for correct Include Examples syntax

Docker images

• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:latest
• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:0.15.0

Contributors

Very special thanks to the contributors.

• @Damans227
• @frugecn
• @jeanbaptistebeck
• @khos2ow
• @rickhlx

v0.14.1

Changelog

This is a small patch over v0.14.0. It fixes base template not found error on Windows. You can ignore updating to this version if you are not running terraform-docs on Windows.

Bug Fixes

30b429d Fix base template not found on Windows

Docker images

• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:latest
• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:0.14.1

v0.14.0

Notable Updates

The most notable changes in this release are:

• Generated content can be customized further away with content in configuration. If the content is empty the default orders of section is used. content is a Go template with following additional variables:

  • {{ .Header }}
  • {{ .Footer }}
  • {{ .Inputs }}
  • {{ .Modules }}
  • {{ .Outputs }}
  • {{ .Providers }}
  • {{ .Requirements }}
  • {{ .Resources }}

  content: |-
    Any arbitrary text can be placed anywhere in the content
  
    {{ .Header }}
  
    and even in between sections
  
    {{ .Providers }}
  
    and they don't even need to be in the default order
  
    {{ .Outputs }}
  
    {{ .Inputs }}

  These variables are the generated output of individual sections in the selected formatter. For example {{ .Inputs }} is Markdown Table representation of inputs when formatter is set to markdown table and AsciiDoc Document representation when formatter is set to asciidoc document and so on.

  Compatible formats for customized content are:

  • asciidoc document
  • asciidoc table
  • markdown document
  • markdown table

• Local relative files can be included automatically in the generated content with `{{ include "..." }} function. This can be very useful for:

  • inject arbitrary markdown files in between sections
  • automatically include example usage

  content: |-
    include any relative files
  
    {{ include "relative/path/to/file" }}
  
    or examples
  
    ```hcl
    {{ include "examples/foo/main.tf" }}
    ```

• Add --html bool flag and config to Markdown to control the generated HTML tags inside markdown output. If set to false no html tags (e.g. <br>, <pre>) will be generated. And as a workaround the multi-line codeblock will be converted to single line with linebreak onverted to <SPACE>.

  For example:

  {
    "bar": {
      "bar": "bar",
      "foo": "bar"
    },
    "buzz": [
      "fizz",
      "buzz"
    ],
    "fizz": []
  }
  

  will be converted to:

  { "bar": { "bar": "bar", "foo": "bar" }, "buzz": [ "fizz", "buzz" ], "fizz": [] }
  

Changelog

Features

2f088f2 Add '--html bool' flag and config to Markdown
6777364 Customize content with individual sections output
ea34bce Include relative files into generated content
57cf3db Extract provider version from .terraform.lock.hcl
0284283 Separate the module version from module source when using ?ref=

Bug Fixes

90ccb84 Add missing Resource.Mode to plugin-sdk (#493)
6820b4c Normalize version to prevent malformed error

Chores

bd32f8c Bump action-homebrew-bump-formula action to v3.8.0
7327de1 Clarify deprecated settings in the docs (#499)
d79abf0 Documentation cosmetic cleanup
2706df0 Enable CodeQL scanning
5df7ff2 Improve Makefile help message
23436be Update release scripts
7f63260 Update to go1.16.4
4397fac Validate license header on files on CI

Docker images

• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:latest
• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:0.14.0

Contributors

Very special thanks to the contributors.

• @edgarsandi
• @khos2ow
• @lokkersp

v0.13.0

Notable Updates

The most notable changes in this release are:

• Add support for Terraform v0.15 and configuration_aliases (thanks to @adamjohnson01)

• Add ability to show or hide data-sources (thanks to @edgarsandi)

• Read .terraform-docs.yml from relative path, absolute path, or $HOME (more info)

  # executing from parent
  $ terraform-docs -c .terraform-docs.yml module-a/
  
  # executing from child
  $ cd module-a/
  $ terraform-docs -c ../.terraform-docs.yml .
  
  # or an absolute path
  $ terraform-docs -c /path/to/parent/folder/.terraform-docs.yml .

• Support outputing to file for absolute path (more info)

  # this works, relative path
  $ terraform-docs markdown table --output-file ../docs/README.md .
  
  # so does this, absolute path
  $ terraform-docs markdown table --output-file /path/to/module/docs/README.md .

• Version constraints configuration (more info)

  # .terraform-docs.yml
  version: ">= 0.13.0, < 1.0.0"

Breaking Changes

• We're no longer distributing standalone binaries. Only compressed files (either tar.gz or zip) will be available to download from GitHub Release page.

• --sort-by-XX flags are deprecated in favor of corresponding dynamic --sort-by XX. Affected flags are:

  • --sort-by-required
  • --sort-by-type

  In return new --sort-by string is added with following values:

  • name (default)
  • required
  • type

  Note that the behavior of --sort bool was not changed and to disable sorting altogether you can run --sort false.

  Note than the type of sort.by in .terraform-docs.yml has been changed from list to string

  sort:
    enabled: true
    by: required   # this now only accepts string

• Flags --show-all and --hide-all are deprecated in favor of explicit use of --show and --hide.

  In other words when --show <section> is used, only <section> will be shown. If you want to show multiple sections and hide the rest you can specify multiple --show flags. The same logic is also applied to --hide.

  # show 'inputs' and hide everything else
  $ terraform-docs --show inputs <formatter>
  
  # show 'inputs' and show 'outputs' and hide everything else
  $ terraform-docs --show inputs --show outputs <formatter>
  
  # hide 'header' and show everything else
  $ terraform-docs --hide header <formatter>
  
  # hide 'header' and hide 'providers' and show everything else
  $ terraform-docs --hide header --hide providers <formatter>

  Note: Using --show or --hide CLI flag will completely override the values from .terraform-docs.yml. Example:

  $ cat .terraform-docs.yml
  sections:
    show:
      - inputs
      - outputs
  
  # example 1: this will only show 'providers'
  $ terraform-docs --show providers .
  
  # example 2: this will hide 'inputs' and hide 'providers' and show everything else
  $ terraform-docs --hide inputs --hide providers .

Changelog

Features

c8fc7ab add ability to show or hide data-sources
d914ca7 Add a flag for showing description with hcl formatted tfvars
a26111f Add support for configuration_aliases
fcd314b Read config from relative path, absolute, or $HOME
0eea133 Support inline comments variation for Markdown and AsciiDoc
845469c Support outputing to file for absolute path
dabf54f Version constraints configuration

Bug Fixes

4be2223 In output-mode inject do not fail if file not found

Refactoring

557d53d Deprecate '--sort-by-XX' in favor of '--sort-by XX'
8c531b6 Deprecate --show-all and --hide-all flags
40f9b9d Do not distribute standalone binaries
2ea8635 Remove unused build tools from dockerfile

Documentation

b4981a1 Add 'since version' to docs for clarity
1415ac9 Add Terraform compatibility matrix documentation
6b0cf54 Add document for 'false' value for CLI flag
2784920 Update doc to indicate minimum go1.16 is needed

Docker images

• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:latest
• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:0.13.0

Contributors

Very special thanks to the contributors.

• @adamjohnson01
• @edgarsandi
• @khos2ow
• @mikiya771
• @pujan14

v0.12.1

Changelog

This is a small patch over v0.12.0. It fixes missing footer-from from CLI and config (#449). You can ignore updating to this version if you are not using footer in your module output.

Bug Fixes

7a6f6c1 Fix missing footer-from if set via CLI flag or config
e4a3a84 print cli errors to stderr

Docker images

• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:latest
• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:0.12.1

Contributors

Very special thanks to the contributors.

• @asobrien
• @khos2ow

v0.12.0

Notable Updates

The most notable changes in this release are:

• Add support for footer (thanks to @simonc-613)

• Add anchors for markdown, asciidocs items (thanks to @nitrocode)

• Save generated content directly into a file (mode inject and replace)

  • inject: partially replace the target file with generated output

  • replace: completely replace the target file with generated output

    The output generated by formatters (markdown, asciidoc, etc) will be inserted into a template before getting saved into the file. This template can be customized with --output-template CLI flag or corresponding item in .terraform-docs.yml config file. Its default value is:

    <!-- BEGIN_TF_DOCS -->
    {{ .Content }}
    <!-- END_TF_DOCS -->
    

• Remove --no-XXX flags. (in v0.10.0 --no-XXX have been deprecated in favor of their counterparts in the format of --XXX=false)

Changelog

Features

aa1e6bb Add support for footer docs
1168e12 Add support for pre-commit hooks
ac5a29c Implement module sort by position (no sort)
243fb27 add mode resource or data source to generated docs
a3bafd6 Save generated content directly into a file
8c05cb9 Add resource 'Name' to generated docs
3d39a94 Add option to hide Type and Default columns
02f490d --anchor to add anchors for markdown, asciidocs
25d2ff4 Completely remove deprecated '--no-XXX' flags

Bug Fixes

7e489d2 Do not modify header lines and trailing whitespaces
c94b43a Template should be optional for output-mode 'replace'

Refactoring

10cd6de Add DCO file
5b57ea4 Disable codecov patch status
3cc4f44 Fix issues reported by golangci-lint
8faaf9f Remove authors file and corresponding scripts
c246442 Remove changelog and corresponding scripts
0c25f7b Update golangci-lint configuration

Docker images

• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:latest
• docker pull quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:0.12.0

Contributors

Very special thanks to the contributors.

• @andreswebs
• @edgarsandi
• @khos2ow
• @nitrocode
• @si-c613
• @tpansino