Each quarter, the team will highlight areas of focus for our work and upcoming research.
Each release will include necessary tasks that lead to the completion of the stated goals as well as community pull requests, enhancements, and features that are not highlighted in the roadmap. This upcoming calendar quarter (Jan-Mar 2021) we will be prioritizing the following areas of work:
Following the release of v2.0.0 we will continue to make improvements to the SDK to ease the upgrade path for provider developers who have not yet migrated and improve the functionality for those that have.
Following the release of the terraform-plugin-go and terraform-plugin-mux modules, we will work to improve and refine these modules to make them more robust, easier to use, and more approachable for developers. This includes creating new abstractions for terraform-plugin-go that developers may find useful and will help inform our future design efforts.
With the release of terraform-plugin-go, we're researching, prototyping, and designing a framework based on the same ideas and foundations, meant to mirror terraform-plugin-sdk in approachability and ease of use while retaining terraform-plugin-go's level of suitability for modern Terraform development.
Following the creation of our reattach-based binary test driver in v2.0.0 of the SDK, we're investigating what a redesigned approach to testing Terraform providers may look like and if we can aid developers in making and testing clearer assertions about their providers.
We're currently researching and investigating ways in which we can surface more information to provider developers about what is happening in their providers, and how we can make the information we surface more accessible and easier to digest.