Advanced Terraform Snippets for Visual Studio Code. It has at least 23k downloads from the marketplace.
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Advanced Terraform Snippets for Visual Studio Code
Provides 550+ code snippets of Hashicorp's Terraform cloud orchestration tool for Visual Studio Code.
Usage
Type part of the snippetstf, press enter:
Sample Snippets
Input / Output / Module
tf-variable // generates variable "myVariable" { }
tf-variable-default // generates variable "myVariable" { default = ""}
tf-output // generates output "myOutputName" { value = ""}
tf-module // generates module "myModuleName" { source = ""}
tf-module-github // generates module "myModuleName" { source = "github.com/username"}
tf-module-github-private // generates module "myModuleName" { source = "git::https://MACHINE-USER:MACHINE-PASS@github.com/username"}
tf-module-bitbucket // generates module "myModuleName" { source = "bitbucket.org/username"}
tf-module-git // generates module "myModuleName" { source = "git://"}
tf-module-mercurial // generates module "myModuleName" { source = "hg::http://"}
tf-module-s3 // generates module "myModuleName" { source = "s3::https://"}
Providers
tf-aws // generates provider "aws" { ... }
tf-aws-profile // generates provider "aws" { profile = "", sharedcredentialsfile="",... }
tf-azurerm // generates provider "azurerm" { ... }
tf-google // generates provider "google" { ... }
tf-openstack // generates provider "openstack" { ... }
tf-ibm_provider // generates provider "ibm" { ... }
Backends / Remote State
tf-backend-azure // generates data "terraformremotestate" "xxx" { backend = "azure" ... }
tf-backend-s3 // generates data "terraformremotestate" "xxx" { backend = "s3" ... }
tf-backend-gcs // generates data "terraformremotestate" "xxx" { backend = "gcs" ... }
tf-backend-consul // generates data "terraformremotestate" "xxx" { backend = "consul" ... }
Handy shortcuts for AWS Regions
tf-aws-region-us-east-1 // generates US East (N.Virginia) us-east-1
tf-aws-region-ap-south-1 // generates Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1
plus all other AWS regions
Others + more, see supported list
tf-dependson // generatestf-provisioner-connection // generatesdependson []provisioner "file" { ... }tf-provisioner-file // generatesprovisioner "file" { ... }tf-provisioner-local-exec // generatesprovisioner "local-exec" { ... }tf-provisioner-remote-exec // generatesprovisioner "remote-exec" { ... }tf-provisioner-nullresource // generatesresource "nullresource" { ... } tf-templatefile // generatesdata "templatefile" "init" { ... } tf-templatefile-inline // generatesdata "templatefile" "init" { ... } inline tf-templatecloudinitconfig // generatesdata "templatecloudinitconfig" "config" { ... }inline

Alternatively, press Ctrl+Space (Windows, Linux) or Cmd+Space (OSX) to activate snippets from within the editor.
Supported Snippets
Input, Output, Module
Provisioners
Providers
- Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, CloudStack
- Consul, Docker, Heroku, DigitalOcean, Bitbucket
- GitHub, Archive, Atlas, Chef, Cloudflare
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, SoftLayer, Scaleway, CenturyLinkCloud
- Cobbler, Datadog, DNSMadeEasy, DNSimple, Dyn
- Fastly, Grafana, InfluxDB, Librato, Logentries
- Mailgun, Packet, PagerDuty, PowerDNS, RabbitMQ
- Random, Rundeck, StatusCake, Terraform, TLS,
- Triton, UltraDNS, OpenStack, VMware vCloud Director, VMware vSphere
- GitLab, Arukas, New Relic, Kubernetes, Vault, OpsGenie, IBM Cloud
Backends / Remote State
- Artifactory, Atlas, Microsoft Azure Storage, Consul, Etcd,
- Google Cloud Storage, Http, Local, Manta, Amazon S3, Openstack Swift
Requirements / Dependencies
Install the Terraform Language support extension from the marketplace published by "Mikael Olenfalk"
Installation
- Install Visual Studio Code 1.x or higher
- Launch Code
- From the command palette
Ctrl-Shift-P(Windows, Linux) orCmd-Shift-P(OSX) - Select
Install Extension - Choose the extension
- Reload Visual Studio Code
Development
How to build
npm run build:snippets
Convention
- All commit logs must follow the "Conventional Changelog" convention, particularly "angular" preset. see https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelogHow can you help ?
It is super easy, the snippets for each Terraform features are self-contained into its own single JSON file.
src/
backends/
configuration/
modules/
state/
provisioners/
providers/
aws.json
chef.json
your-new-feature-here.json
Issues / Comments / Suggestions
Feel free to file an issue or submit a pull request at https://github.com/rixrix/vscode-terraform-snippets/issues
Notes
- Microsoft Azure (Legacy ASM) is not included in this release due to inactivity of development.
Contributors
License
MIT
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