SUMMARY

As I understand there is two way to build an inventory using terraform states:

• cloud.terraform.terraform_state to query directly a state backend using provided backend configuration
• cloud.terraform.terraform_provider to query stated through local terraform project

I didn't manage to use terraform_state, with the following configuration:

plugin: cloud.terraform.terraform_state
hostname: terraform.mydomain.example
backend_type: remote
backend_config:
  organization: my-org
  workspaces:
    name: my-workspace

For that reason I'm using Terraform Cloud with multiple workspaces. For now I'm successfully using terraform_provider. My terraform configuration looks like this:

terraform {
  cloud {
    hostname = "terraform.mydomain.examples"
    organization = "my-org"

    workspaces {
      tags = ["tag1", "tag2"]
    }
  }
  ...
}

I use tags instead of workspace parameter to enable using several workspaces.

The problem with terraform_provider is that I have to manually switch to the desired workspace by typing:

terraform workspace select myworkspace

I would rather have an option in terraform_provider to specify the workspace.

Another option would be to make terraform_state work with the remote option.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

• cloud.terraform.terraform_state
• cloud.terraform.terraform_provider