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To perform recursive inspection with --module, you must download child modules beforehand in each working directory. This means you need to run terraform init (or terraform get) recursively.
However, Terraform does not provide an efficient way to do this. For local modules, #1502 solves this issue by eliminating the need for terraform get, but remote modules still have this issue.
Proposal
Add a configuration hook that runs terraform get on each directory when performing recursive inspection. Imagine something like below:
This hook will result in an error if the Terraform binary is not installed. It is your responsibility to install Terraform and set up credentials for private repositories/registries, and TFLint just invoke a command. This allows us to keep the considerations in TFLint regarding module downloads to a minimum.
Introduction
To perform recursive inspection with
--module
, you must download child modules beforehand in each working directory. This means you need to runterraform init
(orterraform get
) recursively.However, Terraform does not provide an efficient way to do this. For local modules, #1502 solves this issue by eliminating the need for
terraform get
, but remote modules still have this issue.Proposal
Add a configuration hook that runs
terraform get
on each directory when performing recursive inspection. Imagine something like below:The above is the simplest idea, so there may be a better configuration. Terragrunt's design may be helpful.
https://terragrunt.gruntwork.io/docs/features/hooks/
Enabling this flag will run
terraform get
before performing an inspection. It will probably run around here:https://github.com/terraform-linters/tflint/blob/v0.49.0/cmd/inspect.go#L115
This hook will result in an error if the Terraform binary is not installed. It is your responsibility to install Terraform and set up credentials for private repositories/registries, and TFLint just invoke a command. This allows us to keep the considerations in TFLint regarding module downloads to a minimum.
To run
terraform get
programmatically, we can use terraform-exec.https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-exec
References
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