I have a 'development' - 'staging' and 'production' workspace within the terraform cloud organisation.
I'm attempting to interact with them as per documentation here.
Particularly this:
If you associate the directory with multiple workspaces (using workspace tags), you can use the terraform workspace commands to select which remote workspace to use.
Locally, I also have the exact same three terraform workspaces created.
Screenshots:
100% same organisation I was able to interact with the workspaces if I hardcode the workspace value instead of using tags.
My terraform backend cloud definitions:
terraform {
cloud {
organization = "<<myorgname>>"
workspaces {
tags = ["development", "staging", "production"]
}
}
}
When I run a simple terraform init
I get greeted by:
No workspaces found.
There are no workspaces with the configured tags (development, production, staging)
in your Terraform Cloud organization. To finish initializing, Terraform needs at
least one workspace available.
Terraform can create a properly tagged workspace for you now. Please enter a
name to create a new Terraform Cloud workspace.
I've been going through the documentation here that goes into CLI-driven runs with this context but I can't figure out the right way to do this.
What I want is:
- run a
terraform plan
orterraform apply
whilst in the locally-selecteddevelopment
workspace
and then:
- the cloud terraform to perform a run on the remote
development
workspace.
If I just go ahead and write 'development' as a name, it will then apply all 3 tags in the static definition to the remote 'development' workspace, thus defeating the whole purpose of using tags instead of a name.
What's the right way of doing this?
That is true, however there is also this part of documentation [1]:
EDIT: As mentioned in the comments, in order for local workspaces to be usable in Terraform Cloud as well (i.e., to be able to apply the code in Terraform Cloud), there has to be a "common" or a "main" tag across all workspaces created in the Terraform Cloud.
[1] https://www.terraform.io/cli/cloud/settings#arguments