Terraform Provider

Website: https://www.terraform.io
Mailing list: Google Groups

Requirements

Terraform 0.11.x
Go 1.10 (to build the provider plugin)

go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports

Building The Provider

Clone repository to: $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-alicloud

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers; cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers
$ git clone git@github.com:terraform-providers/terraform-provider-alicloud

Enter the provider directory and build the provider

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-alicloud
$ make build

Using the provider

Fill in for each provider

Developing the Provider

If you wish to work on the provider, you'll first need Go installed on your machine (version 1.10+ is required). You'll also need to correctly setup a GOPATH, as well as adding $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH.

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

$ make build
...
$ $GOPATH/bin/terraform-provider-alicloud
...

Running make dev or make devlinux or devwin will only build the specified developing provider which matchs the local system. And then, it will unarchive the provider binary and then replace the local provider plugin.

In order to test the provider, you can simply run make test.

$ make test

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

Note: Acceptance tests create real resources, and often cost money to run.

$ make testacc

Acceptance Testing

Before making a release, the resources and data sources are tested automatically with acceptance tests (the tests are located in the alicloud/*_test.go files). You can run them by entering the following instructions in a terminal:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/alibaba/terraform-provider
export ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY=xxx
export ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY=xxx
export ALICLOUD_REGION=xxx
export ALICLOUD_ACCOUNT_ID=xxx
export outfile=gotest.out
TF_ACC=1 TF_LOG=INFO go test ./alicloud -v -run=TestAccAlicloud -timeout=1440m | tee $outfile
go2xunit -input $outfile -output $GOPATH/tests.xml

-> Note: The last line is optional, it allows to convert test results into a XML format compatible with xUnit.

Because some features are not available in all regions, the following environment variables can be set in order to skip tests that use these features:

ALICLOUD_SKIP_TESTS_FOR_SLB_SPECIFICATION=true - Server Load Balancer with guaranteed performance specifications (old implementation has only shared performance)
ALICLOUD_SKIP_TESTS_FOR_SLB_PAY_BY_BANDWIDTH=true - Server Load Balancer with a "pay by bandwidth" billing method (mostly available in China)
ALICLOUD_SKIP_TESTS_FOR_FUNCTION_COMPUTE=true - Function Compute
ALICLOUD_SKIP_TESTS_FOR_PVTZ_ZONE=true - Private Zone
ALICLOUD_SKIP_TESTS_FOR_RDS_MULTIAZ=true - Apsara RDS with multiple availability zones
ALICLOUD_SKIP_TESTS_FOR_CLASSIC_NETWORK=true - Classic network configuration

Refer

Alibaba Cloud Provider Development Repository terraform-provider

Alibaba Cloud Provider Official Docs

tkokok/terraform-provider-alicloud