Terraform "assume" Provider

This is a utility provider for Terraform (and other software that supports Terraform's provider protocol) which allows annotating potentially-unknown values with assumptions that can give Terraform more information during the planning phase and thus help to produce a more complete plan.

To use the functions in this provider, your module must declare that it requires the provider:

terraform {
  required_providers {
    assume = {
      source = "apparentlymart/assume"
    }
  }
}

The above declares that this module will use the local name "assume" to refer to this provider, and so its functions would be called using the prefix provider::assume::. For example the notnull function would be called as provider::assume::notnull. The documentation for each function assumes that local name, but you can choose a different local name if you wish.

Support for functions in providers was added in Terraform v1.8, and so this provider effectively requires Terraform v1.8.0 or later.

How Terraform uses these assumptions

During the planning phase there are often values that Terraform cannot yet determine, because they will be decided by a remote system only during the apply step.

However, Terraform can still track some approximate information about these unknown values, and will make use of that information when evaluating expressions that refer to unknown values.

For example, if a value v is marked as "not null" then Terraform can produce a known value for v != null even if the final value of v is not decided yet.

Ideally explicit assumption annotations would not be needed because all other Terraform and provider features would annotate their results with this additional information automatically. However, this possibility was only introduced to Terraform in v1.6 and so not all providers have yet been updated to produce the necessary metadata, and so this provider can potentially help fill those gaps until the providers are updated.