Commit 1a28b177 authored by Matt Kasa's avatar Matt Kasa

Document Terraform state name without project name

Relates to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/222380
parent 241b49f5
......@@ -65,16 +65,16 @@ local machine, this is a simple way to get started:
the `api` scope.
1. On your local machine, run `terraform init`, passing in the following options,
replacing `<YOUR-PROJECT-NAME>`, `<YOUR-PROJECT-ID>`, `<YOUR-USERNAME>` and
replacing `<YOUR-STATE-NAME>`, `<YOUR-PROJECT-ID>`, `<YOUR-USERNAME>` and
`<YOUR-ACCESS-TOKEN>` with the relevant values. This command initializes your
Terraform state, and stores that state within your GitLab project. This example
uses `gitlab.com`:
```shell
terraform init \
-backend-config="address=https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<YOUR-PROJECT-ID>/terraform/state/<YOUR-PROJECT-NAME>" \
-backend-config="lock_address=https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<YOUR-PROJECT-ID>/terraform/state/<YOUR-PROJECT-NAME>/lock" \
-backend-config="unlock_address=https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<YOUR-PROJECT-ID>/terraform/state/<YOUR-PROJECT-NAME>/lock" \
-backend-config="address=https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<YOUR-PROJECT-ID>/terraform/state/<YOUR-STATE-NAME>" \
-backend-config="lock_address=https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<YOUR-PROJECT-ID>/terraform/state/<YOUR-STATE-NAME>/lock" \
-backend-config="unlock_address=https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<YOUR-PROJECT-ID>/terraform/state/<YOUR-STATE-NAME>/lock" \
-backend-config="username=<YOUR-USERNAME>" \
-backend-config="password=<YOUR-ACCESS-TOKEN>" \
-backend-config="lock_method=POST" \
......@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ local machine, this is a simple way to get started:
-backend-config="retry_wait_min=5"
```
Next, [configure the backend](#configure-the-backend).
You can now run `terraform plan` and `terraform apply` as you normally would.
## Get started using GitLab CI
......@@ -121,17 +121,18 @@ and the CI YAML file:
commands must be executed, `TF_ADDRESS` is the URL to the state on the GitLab
instance where this pipeline runs, and the final path segment in `TF_ADDRESS`
is the name of the Terraform state. Projects may have multiple states, and
this name is arbitrary, so in this example we will set it to the name of the
project, and we will ensure that the `.terraform` directory is cached between
jobs in the pipeline using a cache key based on the state name:
this name is arbitrary, so in this example we set it to `example-production`
which corresponds with the directory we're using as our `TF_ROOT`, and we
ensure that the `.terraform` directory is cached between jobs in the pipeline
using a cache key based on the state name (`example-production`):
```yaml
variables:
TF_ROOT: ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/environments/cloudflare/production
TF_ADDRESS: ${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/terraform/state/${CI_PROJECT_NAME}
TF_ROOT: ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/environments/example/production
TF_ADDRESS: ${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/terraform/state/example-production
cache:
key: ${CI_PROJECT_NAME}
key: example-production
paths:
- ${TF_ROOT}/.terraform
```
......@@ -275,11 +276,11 @@ can configure this manually as follows:
image: registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/terraform-images/stable:latest
variables:
TF_ROOT: ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/environments/cloudflare/production
TF_ADDRESS: ${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/terraform/state/${CI_PROJECT_NAME}
TF_ROOT: ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/environments/example/production
TF_ADDRESS: ${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/terraform/state/example-production
cache:
key: ${CI_PROJECT_NAME}
key: example-production
paths:
- ${TF_ROOT}/.terraform
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