Terraform: Support tilde '~' in shared credentials path for providers

[joshlove]

Terraform Version

v.0.8.2

Affected Resource(s)

• aws provider

Terraform Configuration Files

provider "aws" {
  region                   = "us-west-2"
  shared_credentials_file  = "~/.aws/creds"
  profile                  = "customprofile"
}

Expected Behavior

Evaluate to my $HOME, and then use the aws creds file from there. This would be nice in a team environment so we don't have usernames hardcoded.

Workaround is a wrapper script for this, but this would be nice as an enhancement.

[grubernaut]

Hi @joshlove, thanks for the issue!

I've submitted #11277, which should allow you to use the pathexpand() interpolation function inside your provider config, and elsewhere.

provider "aws" {
  region                   = "us-west-2"
  shared_credentials_file  = "${pathexpand(~/.aws/creds)}"
  profile                  = "customprofile"
}

[joshlove]

Appreciate your work on this, thanks!

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