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Advanced Terraform Snippets Generator

Advanced Terraform Snippets Generator

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Provides 550+ code snippets of Hashicorp's Terraform cloud orchestration tool.
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Advanced Terraform Snippets for Visual Studio Code

Provides 550+ code snippets of Hashicorp's Terraform cloud orchestration tool for Visual Studio Code.

Usage

Type part of the snippets tf, press enter:

Sample Snippets

Input / Output / Module

tf-variable                         // generates `variable "myVariable" { }`
tf-variable-default                 // generates `variable "myVariable" { default = ""}`
tf-output                           // generates `output "myOutputName" { value = ""}`
tf-module                           // generates `module "myModuleName" { source = ""}`
tf-module-github                    // generates `module "myModuleName" { source = "github.com/username"}`
tf-module-github-private            // generates `module "myModuleName" { source = "git::https://MACHINE-USER:MACHINE-PASS@github.com/username"}`
tf-module-bitbucket                 // generates `module "myModuleName" { source = "bitbucket.org/username"}`
tf-module-git                       // generates `module "myModuleName" { source = "git://"}`
tf-module-mercurial                 // generates `module "myModuleName" { source = "hg::http://"}`
tf-module-s3                        // generates `module "myModuleName" { source = "s3::https://"}`

Providers

tf-aws                              // generates `provider "aws" { ... }`
tf-aws-profile                       // generates `provider "aws" { profile = "", shared_credentials_file="",... }`
tf-azurerm                          // generates `provider "azurerm" { ... }`
tf-google                           // generates `provider "google" { ... }`
tf-openstack                        // generates `provider "openstack" { ... }`
tf-ibm_provider                     // generates `provider "ibm" { ... }`

Backends / Remote State

tf-backend-azure                    // generates `data "terraform_remote_state" "xxx" { backend = "azure" ... }`
tf-backend-s3                       // generates `data "terraform_remote_state" "xxx" { backend = "s3" ... }`
tf-backend-gcs                      // generates `data "terraform_remote_state" "xxx" { backend = "gcs" ... }`
tf-backend-consul                   // generates `data "terraform_remote_state" "xxx" { backend = "consul" ... }`

Handy shortcuts for AWS Regions

tf-aws-region-us-east-1             // generates US East (N.Virginia) `us-east-1`
tf-aws-region-ap-south-1            // generates Asia Pacific (Mumbai) `ap-south-1`

plus all other AWS regions

Others + more, see supported list

tf-depends_on                       // generates `depends_on []`
tf-provisioner-connection           // generates `provisioner "file" { ... }`
tf-provisioner-file                 // generates `provisioner "file" { ... }`
tf-provisioner-local-exec           // generates `provisioner "local-exec" { ... }`
tf-provisioner-remote-exec          // generates `provisioner "remote-exec" { ... }`
tf-provisioner-null_resource        // generates `resource "null_resource" { ... }`
tf-template_file                    // generates `data "template_file" "init" { ... }`
tf-template_file-inline             // generates `data "template_file" "init" { ... }` inline
tf-template_cloudinit_config        // generates `data "template_cloudinit_config" "config" { ... }` inline

Use Extension

Alternatively, press Ctrl+Space (Windows, Linux) or Cmd+Space (OSX) to activate snippets from within the editor.

Supported Snippets

Input, Output, Module

  • Input variables
  • Output Variables
  • Modules

Provisioners

  • Resource, connection, file, local-exec, remote-exec
  • null_resource, file, cloudinit, Chef provisioner

Providers

  • Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, CloudStack
  • Consul, Docker, Heroku, DigitalOcean, Bitbucket
  • GitHub, Archive, Atlas, Chef, Cloudflare
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, SoftLayer, Scaleway, CenturyLinkCloud
  • Cobbler, Datadog, DNSMadeEasy, DNSimple, Dyn
  • Fastly, Grafana, InfluxDB, Librato, Logentries
  • Mailgun, Packet, PagerDuty, PowerDNS, RabbitMQ
  • Random, Rundeck, StatusCake, Terraform, TLS,
  • Triton, UltraDNS, OpenStack, VMware vCloud Director, VMware vSphere
  • GitLab, Arukas, New Relic, Kubernetes, Vault, OpsGenie, IBM Cloud

Backends / Remote State

  • Artifactory, Atlas, Microsoft Azure Storage, Consul, Etcd,
  • Google Cloud Storage, Http, Local, Manta, Amazon S3, Openstack Swift

Requirements / Dependencies

Install the Terraform Language support extension from the marketplace published by "Mikael Olenfalk"

Installation

  1. Install Visual Studio Code 1.x or higher
  2. Launch Code
  3. From the command palette Ctrl-Shift-P (Windows, Linux) or Cmd-Shift-P (OSX)
  4. Select Install Extension
  5. Choose the extension
  6. Reload Visual Studio Code

Development

How to build

  • npm run build:snippets
    • Generates a single file in "snippets/terraform.json" from "src/" snippets file.

Convention

  • All commit logs must follow the "Conventional Changelog" convention, particularly "angular" preset. see https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog

How can you help ?

It is super easy, the snippets for each Terraform features are self-contained into its own single JSON file.

src/
    backends/
    configuration/
    modules/
    state/
    provisioners/
    providers/
        aws.json
        chef.json
        your-new-feature-here.json

Issues / Comments / Suggestions

Feel free to file an issue or submit a pull request at https://github.com/rixrix/vscode-terraform-snippets/issues

Notes

  • Microsoft Azure (Legacy ASM) is not included in this release due to inactivity of development.

Contributors

  • Lionel T.
  • madole

License

MIT

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