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Tristan Boland
Tristan Boland

Reputation: 165

Terraform Destroy with Istio module

We are using Terraform in a project where we implemented an Istio module. Whenever we run the terraform destroy command, the Istio module runs a rm -rf command.

This works fine on Mac machines, on windows machines this causes errors.

For reference, the command is called inside the istio module and is outside of our codebase.

module "istio" {
  source  = "combinator-ml/istio/k8s"
}

Anyone run into this issue and has a workaround?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 163

Answers (2)

Tristan Boland
Tristan Boland

Reputation: 165

We ended up using git bash on our windows machines as a workaround

Upvotes: 0

Mikołaj Głodziak
Mikołaj Głodziak

Reputation: 5267

The istio module runs a rm -rf command. This works fine on the Mac machines, on the windows machines this causes errors.

This works as expected. macOS is UNIX-based system and rm -rf command works. Windows (powershell) doesn't have this command.

The correct, equivalent command on PowerShell would be:

rm C:\path\to\delete -r -fo

Look at this question. There is a very good explanation of this situation.

Back to your problem. If you are using Windows (Powershell) you need to create your custom solution (Powershell script) to delete the appropriate files using Powershell commands.

Upvotes: 1

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