We’re looking for a little help testing this upcoming feature.
Terraform Ignore is a work in progress, and may have issues.
You can use this build of Terraform via this feature branch: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/tree/f-tfignore.
A plan or apply with this build will be very noisy at present, as it shares all the files that are ignored, but that’s in there currently to help with debugging while this is in progress.
How to test:
Checkout and build Terraform from the f-tfignore branch (i.e. run “go install”).
To use/test this feature:
- Have a Terraform setup that leverages the remote backend
- Add a
.terraformignorefile to your configuration root - Run
terraform planorterraform applyand see which files are excluded/you can add patterns to the .terraformignore file to exclude files/directories from your slug
About the .terraformignore file:
- Blank lines or lines starting with # are ignored.
- Each line defines a pattern
- You can end patterns with a forward slash / to specify a directory.
- You can negate a pattern by starting it with an exclamation point !.
- Standard glob patterns work.
If you’d like to report an issue and/or provide some additional feedback we’ve got a form here for this feature: https://forms.gle/czsWEYqag8drdwDj6 .
Notes:
If building Terraform from source is new-to-you (it is to me), you’ll want to:
- Download Go 1.12.x (https://golang.org/dl/) and set it up (Add
goto your PATH) - Use
go installto build the terraform binary