Terrafile

Terrafile is a binary written in Go to systematically manage external modules from Github for use in Terraform. See this article for more information on how it was introduced in a Ruby rake task.

How to install

macOS

brew tap coretech/terrafile && brew install terrafile

Linux

Download your preferred flavor from the releases page and install manually.

For example:

curl -L https://github.com/coretech/terrafile/releases/download/v{VERSION}/terrafile_{VERSION}_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz -C /usr/local/bin

How to use

Terrafile expects a file named Terrafile which will contain your terraform module dependencies in a yaml like format.

An example Terrafile:

tf-aws-vpc:
    source:  "git@github.com:terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-vpc"
    version: "v1.46.0"
tf-aws-vpc-experimental:
    source:  "git@github.com:terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-vpc"
    version: "master"

Terrafile config file in current directory and modules exported to ./vendor/modules

$ terrafile
INFO[0000] [*] Checking out v1.46.0 of git@github.com:terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-vpc  
INFO[0000] [*] Checking out master of git@github.com:terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-vpc

Terrafile config file in custom directory

$ terrafile -f config/Terrafile
INFO[0000] [*] Checking out v1.46.0 of git@github.com:terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-vpc  
INFO[0000] [*] Checking out master of git@github.com:terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-vpc

Terraform modules exported to custom directory

$ terrafile -p custom_directory
INFO[0000] [*] Checking out master of git@github.com:terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-vpc  
INFO[0001] [*] Checking out v1.46.0 of git@github.com:terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-vpc

TODO