PowerShell Terraform Tools

Description

A PowerShell module for Terraform, a tool from Hashicorp for managing infrastructure safely and efficiently.

It will install the following Terraform tools :

• terraform-switcher
• terraform-docs
• trivy
• tflint
• tfautomv

It also provides some useful terraform aliases for everyday use.

Table of content

⚙️ Installation

Install or update from PowerShell Gallery

• Install

Install-Module terraform-tools -Scope CurrentUser -AllowClobber

• Update

Install-Module terraform-tools -Scope CurrentUser -AllowClobber -Force

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⚠️ If you haven't allowed script execution policy, set your script execution policy to RemoteSigned or Unrestricted.

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

🛂 Usage

You have to import the module to use terraform-tools.

Add below command into your PowerShell profile.

Import-Module terraform-tools -DisableNameChecking

Then restart your PowerShell.

• First time : will download, install and add all Terraform tools managed by this module to your user $PATH
• Then : will only add tools to your $PATH

Now you can use wanted tool or uses wanted aliases.

🛈 Install terraform command using tfswitch command

tfswitch

If you facing issue with current version of tfswitch, have a look at my fork

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⚠️ If you don't have PowerShell profile yet, create it with below command!

New-Item -ItemType File $profile

Aliases

Here is the list of availabe aliases provides by this module :

Alias	Command
tf	terraform
tff	tf fmt
tfv	tf validate
tfi	tf init
tfp	tf plan
tfa	tf apply
tfd	tf destroy
tfo	tf output
tfr	tf refresh
tfs	tf show
tfw	tf workspace
tffr	tff -recursive
tfip	tfi & tfp
tfia	tfi & tfa
tfid	tfi & tfd
tfa!	tfa -auto-approve
tfia!	tfi && tfa!
tfd!	tfd -auto-approve
tfid!	tfi && tfd!
tfversion	tf version
tfws	tfw select -or-create [workspace_name]

Function

# Show all aliases available in module

Get-TerraformAliases

# Show a specific alias available in module

Get-TerraformAliases [alias_name]

Updating Terraform tools

The module comes with a PowerShell function to update all Terraform tools when you want

Update-TerraformTools

License

MIT