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):
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Incompatibilities and Notes
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-var
and-var-file
correspond to declared variables, generating errors or warnings if not.
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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
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Other Improvements
- formatedate function ( ... still waiting for Unix timestamp support. #Hashicorp ...)
- A new
pg
state storage backend allows storing state in a PostgreSQL database.
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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.
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