Sponsored by Scalr - Terraform Automation & Collaboration Software
A utility to generate documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats.
- Users
- Read the User Guide to learn how to use terraform-docs
- Read the Formats Guide to learn about different output formats of terraform-docs
- Refer to Config File Reference for all the available configuration options
- Developers
- Read Contributing Guide before submitting a pull request
Visit our website for all documentation.
The latest version can be installed using go get
:
GO111MODULE="on" go get github.com/terraform-docs/terraform-docs@v0.15.0
NOTE: to download any version before v0.9.1
(inclusive) you need to use to
old module namespace (segmentio
):
# only for v0.9.1 and before
GO111MODULE="on" go get github.com/segmentio/terraform-docs@v0.9.1
NOTE: please use the latest Go to do this, minimum go1.16
or greater.
This will put terraform-docs
in $(go env GOPATH)/bin
. If you encounter the error
terraform-docs: command not found
after installation then you may need to either add
that directory to your $PATH
as shown here or do a manual installation by cloning
the repo and run make build
from the repository which will put terraform-docs
in:
$(go env GOPATH)/src/github.com/terraform-docs/terraform-docs/bin/$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')-amd64/terraform-docs
Stable binaries are also available on the releases page. To install, download the
binary for your platform from "Assets" and place this into your $PATH
:
curl -Lo ./terraform-docs.tar.gz https://github.com/terraform-docs/terraform-docs/releases/download/v0.15.0/terraform-docs-v0.15.0-$(uname)-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzf terraform-docs.tar.gz
chmod +x terraform-docs
mv terraform-docs /some-dir-in-your-PATH/terraform-docs
NOTE: Windows releases are in ZIP
format.
If you are a Mac OS X user, you can use Homebrew:
brew install terraform-docs
or
brew install terraform-docs/tap/terraform-docs
Windows users can install using Scoop:
scoop bucket add terraform-docs https://github.com/terraform-docs/scoop-bucket
scoop install terraform-docs
or Chocolatey:
choco install terraform-docs
Alternatively you also can run terraform-docs
as a container:
docker run quay.io/terraform-docs/terraform-docs:0.15.0
NOTE: Docker tag latest
refers to latest stable released version and edge
refers to HEAD of master
at any given point in time.
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MIT License - Copyright (c) 2021 The terraform-docs Authors.