Support Terraform Cloud with different workspaces

[raspbeguy]

SUMMARY

As I understand there is two way to build an inventory using terraform states:

• cloud.terraform.terraform_state to query directly a state backend using provided backend configuration
• cloud.terraform.terraform_provider to query stated through local terraform project

I didn't manage to use terraform_state, with the following configuration:

plugin: cloud.terraform.terraform_state
hostname: terraform.mydomain.example
backend_type: remote
backend_config:
  organization: my-org
  workspaces:
    name: my-workspace

For that reason I'm using Terraform Cloud with multiple workspaces. For now I'm successfully using terraform_provider. My terraform configuration looks like this:

terraform {
  cloud {
    hostname = "terraform.mydomain.examples"
    organization = "my-org"

    workspaces {
      tags = ["tag1", "tag2"]
    }
  }
  ...
}

I use tags instead of workspace parameter to enable using several workspaces.

The problem with terraform_provider is that I have to manually switch to the desired workspace by typing:

terraform workspace select myworkspace

I would rather have an option in terraform_provider to specify the workspace.

Another option would be to make terraform_state work with the remote option.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

• cloud.terraform.terraform_state
• cloud.terraform.terraform_provider

[gravesm]

What is the error message you are receiving when using the terraform_state plugin? Also, what version of the cloud.terraform collection and Ansible are you using?

[raspbeguy]

I'm using master version on the plugins.

I have got this error:

[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /home/ggodfroy/repo/metrics-infra/ansible/environments/preprod-test/terraform_state.yml with auto plugin: Command '['tofu', 'init', '-input=false', '-no-color', '-backend-config',
'hostname=terraform.mydomain.examples', '-backend-config', 'organization=my-org', '-backend-config', "workspaces={'name': 'my-workspace'}"]' returned non-zero exit status 1.

When I execute this tofu command myself I get this error:

OpenTofu initialized in an empty directory!

The directory has no OpenTofu configuration files. You may begin working
with OpenTofu immediately by creating OpenTofu configuration files.

I guess there is no way to change directory in terraform_state. Also I don't know why I functionally would need some terraform/tofu config because I normally provided everything the plugin needs to fetch states.

Same error with tofu and terraform btw.