Terraform: Create workspace with local execution mode from CLI

Created on 2 Nov 2019 · 4Comments · Source: hashicorp/terraform

Could you add an optional argument to the ”terraform workspace new” command to set the execution mode of the new workspace to local?

Use case: when creating a new service, we want to copy a project template that includes terraform files and automated ci/cd-scripts. With ☝️ we would be able to simple commit and the automated pipeline would create new workspaces, provision infrastructure and deploy artifacts. At the moment, we need to first create the workspaces manually.

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erikxiv

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I personally would like to see this added to the configuration as well; within the definition of the backend like:

terraform {
  backend "remote" {
    hostname     = "app.terraform.io"
    organization = "my-organization"

    workspaces {
      prefix = "myapp-"
      mode = "local" | "remote"
    }
  }
}

skoblenick on 3 Nov 2019

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I personally would like to see this added to the configuration as well; within the definition of the backend like:

terraform {
  backend "remote" {
    hostname     = "app.terraform.io"
    organization = "my-organization"

    workspaces {
      prefix = "myapp-"
      mode = "local" | "remote"
    }
  }
}

skoblenick on 3 Nov 2019

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I think we should be able to also set the default mode at the org level in the TF Cloud UI.