Terraform `tfcoremock` Provider

The tfcoremock provider is intended to aid with testing the Terraform core libraries and the Terraform CLI. This provider should allow users to define all possible Terraform configurations and run them through the Terraform core platform.

The provider supplies two static resources:

tfcoremock_simple_resource
tfcoremock_complex_resource

Users can then define additional dynamic resources by supplying a dynamic_resources.json file alongside their root Terraform configuration. These dynamic resources can be used to model any Terraform configuration not covered by the provided static resources.

Use the TFCOREMOCK_DYNAMIC_RESOURCES_FILE environment variable to customise the location of the dynamic_resources.json file. By default, the provider looks for the dynamic_resources.json file in the same directory as the Terraform config files, but using this environment variable allows the dynamic resources to be defined by any file on the system. For example: TFCOREMOCK_DYNAMIC_RESOURCES_FILE=/path/to/resources.json terraform plan

By default, all resources created by the provider are then converted into a human-readable JSON format and written out to the resource directory. This behaviour can be disabled by turning on the use_only_state flag in the provider schema (this is useful when running the provider in a Terraform Cloud environment). The resource directory defaults to terraform.resource.

All resources supplied by the provider (including the simple and complex resource as well as any dynamic resources) are duplicated into data sources. The data sources should be supplied in the JSON format that resources are written into. The provider looks into the data directory, which defaults to terraform.data.

Finally, all resources (and data sources) supplied by the provider have an id attribute that is generated if not set by the configuration. Dynamic resources cannot define an id attribute as the provider will create one for them. The id attribute is used as name of the human-readable JSON files held in the resource and data directories.

Requirements

Terraform >= 1.0
Go >= 1.21

Using the provider

We provide a simple example here. View the examples and docs subdirectories for more examples.

In this example, we have a tfcoremock_simple_resource defined as a data source with an id of my-simple-resource. This means we create a file terraform.data/my-simple-resource.json which defines a simple resource with a single integer set. We then define a dynamic resource called tfcoremock_dynamic_resource. The dynamic resource holds a single integer, and is defined in the dynamic_resources.json file.

Note, that we do not define an id field for this resource when we provide the definition. Despite this, we can still provide a value for the id in the configuration because the provider ensures that all resources have this attribute. In this example, we do provide a value for the id field. If we didn't, the provider would generate one for us.

The following subsections show the Terraform configuration pre-apply and then show the extra files created post-apply.

Pre-apply

./main.tf

terraform {
  required_providers {
    tfcoremock = {
      source  = "hashicorp/tfcoremock"
      version = "0.1.2"
    }
  }
}

data "tfcoremock_simple_resource" "my_simple_resource" {
  id = "my-simple-resource"
}

resource "tfcoremock_dynamic_resource" "my_dynamic_resource" {
  id = "my-dynamic-resource"
  my_value = data.tfcoremock_simple_resource.my_simple_resource.integer + 1
}

./terraform.data/my-simple-resource.json

{
  "values": {
    "integer": {
      "number": "0"
    },
    "id": {
      "string": "my-simple-resource"
    }
  }
}

./dynamic_resources.json

{
  "tfcoremock_dynamic_resource": {
    "attributes": {
      "my_value": {
        "type": "integer",
        "required": true
      }
    }
  }
}

Post apply

In addition to the normal Terraform state and lock files, you will see the new resource we created has been written into the resource directory.

./terraform.resource/my-dynamic-resource.json

{
  "values": {
    "id": {
      "string": "my-dynamic-resource"
    },
    "my_value": {
      "number": "1"
    }
  }
}

Developing the Provider

If you wish to work on the provider, you'll first need Go installed on your machine (see Requirements above).

To compile the provider, run go install. This will build the provider and put the provider binary in the $GOPATH/bin directory.

To generate or update documentation, run go generate.

In order to run the full suite of Acceptance tests, run make testacc.

hashicorp/terraform-provider-tfcoremock

Terraform tfcoremock Provider