The Terraform example at DockerHub is outdated

[TG9541]

Problem:

The example usage at https://hub.docker.com/r/hashicorp/terraform/ is outdated, which is likely to frustrate beginners.

How to reproduce it: Using docker run -i -t hashicorp/terraform:light plan main.tf results in sessions like following:

thomas@w500:~/source/terraform$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 thomas thomas 2331 Jun  3 10:12 account.json
-rw-rw-r-- 1 thomas thomas  937 Jun  3 10:14 main.tf
thomas@w500:~/source/terraform$ docker run -it hashicorp/terraform:light version
Terraform v0.11.7

thomas@w500:~/source/terraform$ docker run -it hashicorp/terraform:light plan main.tf
Failed to load Terraform configuration or plan: open main.tf: no such file or directory

The solution is to follow the examples in the GitHub README.md.

Proposed solution: Please edit the docs at DockerHub, remove the broken example, and point to the up-to-date docs at GitHub instead.

[christhomas]

Why is this not fixed yet? It seems like a very easy to solve problem?

[paultyng]

We no longer build Terraform docker images from this repository (Packer images are built here still).

Issues and pull requests on the Terraform docker image should be opened on the main Terraform repository: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform

[Curtis017]

@TG9541 that README.md link is broken. Could you please provide the solution in this thread. I would like to use the docker image to run plans. 😄

[deenski]

@Curtis017 Solution: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform#docker

[jasong1978]

From where can I pull the new light docker image?

[wedneyyuri]

Solution: mount the volume and overwrite the working directory. Example:

docker run -it -v $(pwd):/workpace -w /workpace hashicorp/terraform:0.12.2 apply