Terraform: Ignoring files when copying with file provisioner

[ghost]

I'm copying a directory (and subdirectories) to a remote machine with the file provisioner, but would like to skip some of the files in it. I wonder if there is currently a way (explicit) to ignore files when copying with the file provisioner, or do I need to delete them afterwards with a remote-exec block?

Possibly related with #1948

[mitchellh]

Rather than add this to the file provisioner, we recomend you work around this at the moment using local-exec to filter the files into a new directory then upload. This isn't ideal but is a solid workaround.

[ghost]

Thanks for the hint, will try that solution. It feels cleaner than deleting them on the remote machine.

[gaui]

Introduce .tfignore just like .gitignore ? 😁

[bukowa]

@gaui idea sounds amazing