Missing folders lead to failing retries

[gsedlacz]

Hi,

thank you for your work.

Request

It would be great if a file copy would automatically create any missing directories.

the issue

e.g.

user@example.com: /opt# ls
one two three

and a main.tf like

terraform {
  required_providers {
    ssh = {
      source = "loafoe/ssh"
      version = "2.6.0"
    }
  }
}

resource "ssh_resource" "init" {
  host     = "example.com"
  user     = "user"
  agent   = true

  file {
    destination = "/opt/four/file" # the folder does not exist yet
    source      = "/my/local/file"
  }
}

Upon applying ssh_resource gets stuck.

Workaround

• You can manually create the missing folder.
• You can copy over a script to create the missing directories.

Proposal

Either create the required directories automatically or add an option to enable automatic folder creation.

---

What are your thoughts on this?

[loafoe]

hi @gsedlacz thanks for the request. There is a pre_commands argument which allows you to execute a set of commands before the file blocks are processed. To solve your issue you try something like:

resource "ssh_resource" "init" {
  host     = "example.com"
  user     = "user"
  agent   = true
  
  pre_commands = ["mkdir -p  /opt/four"]

  file {
    destination = "/opt/four/file" # the folder does not exist yet
    source      = "/my/local/file"
  }
}

Basically you use pre_commands to ensure all conditions are in place for the file blocks to succeed. Would this work for you?

[gsedlacz]

Nice workaround and thank you for your effort