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Jenifer
Jenifer

Reputation: 61

terraform validate to check only for syntax and not rest things

currently I am running below shell command

@if [ -x "$$(command -v terraform)" ]; then \
    echo "==> Checking terraform formatting of files"; \
    (terraform validate ./test && echo "Terraform format check passed successfully") \
    || (echo "validation failed" && exit 1); \
else \
    echo "No terraform command found"; \
    exit 1; \
fi

here I dont want to initialize the backend but it seems it does that and I also see error as

?   on test/policy.tf line 320:
?  320: module "service_admin_policy" {
?
? This module is not yet installed. Run "terraform init" to install all
? modules required by this configuration.

terraform version = 1.1.6

using terraform validate I just want to check if the .tf files in a directory are just syntactically correct like braces missing and comma kind of stuff. any help on how I can ignore these errors.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6243

Answers (1)

Dan Monego
Dan Monego

Reputation: 10117

Validate works at the level of checking your code for soundness, including loading modules and ensuring that variables are correctly named.

If you only want basic syntax of a local file, consider using terraform fmt -write=false. If the formatter is unable to parse the file, it will throw an error.

Upvotes: 6

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