Requirements
- Terraform 0.10.x
- Go 1.10 (to build the provider plugin)
Building The Provider
Clone repository to: $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-cloudflare
$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers; cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers
$ git clone https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-cloudflare.git
When it comes to building you have two options:
make build
and install it globally
If you don't mind installing the development version of the provider
globally, you can use make build
in the provider directory which will
build and link the binary into your $GOPATH/bin
directory.
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-cloudflare
$ make build
go build
and install it local to your changes
If you would rather install the provider locally and not impact the
stable version you already have installed, you can use the
~/.terraformrc
file to tell Terraform where your provider is. You do
this by building the provider using Go.
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-cloudflare
$ go build -o terraform-provider-cloudflare
And then update your ~/.terraformrc
file to point at the location
you've built it.
providers {
cloudflare = "${GOPATH}/github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-cloudflare/terraform-provider-cloudflare"
}
A caveat with this approach is that you will need to run terraform init
whenever the provider is rebuilt. You'll also need to remember to
comment it/remove it when it's not in use to avoid tripping yourself up.
Developing the Provider
If you wish to work on the provider, you'll first need Go installed on your machine (version 1.9+ is required). You'll also need to correctly setup a GOPATH, as well as adding $GOPATH/bin
to your $PATH
.
See above for which option suits your workflow for building the provider.
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
Updating a vendored dependency
Terraform providers use govendor
to manage the vendored
dependencies. To update a dependency, you can run govendor fetch <dependency_path>
. An example of updating the cloudflare-go
library:
$ govendor fetch github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go
This will update the local vendor
directory and vendor/vendor.json
to include the new dependencies.