Terraform 0.12 General Release

#terraform #cloud

Back in July of last year Hashicorp announced the preview of Terraform 0.12. As of yesterday (May 22nd) 0.12 is now in generally availability. Some of the highlights I am looking forward to are (but not limited to):

Incompatibilities and Notes
- -var and -var-file correspond to declared variables, generating errors or warnings if not.
New Features
- First-class expressions: ami ="${var.foo}" -> ami = var.ami
- The for express
- Generalized "splat" operator
- Nullable argument values
- Revamped error messages
- Generalized Type System
- Structural Rendering of Plans
Other Improvements
- formatedate function ( ... still waiting for Unix timestamp support. #Hashicorp ...)
- A new pg state storage backend allows storing state in a PostgreSQL database.
Bug Fixes
- ...a lot of fixes.

All in all it looks like 0.12 shaped up to be a nice point release. I am looking forward to seeing how these improvements will help me bend "the cloud" the my will

Stay tuned for a follow up when I explore how hard the migration from 0.11.x to 0.12.0 ends up being for a couple of current projects.