terraform-provider-cmdexec

terraform-provider-cmdexec

What is this

terraform-provider-cmdexec provides command execution from Terraform Configuration.
Terraform has local-exec provisioner by default. but provisioner is executed when terraform apply. On the other hand, terraform-provider-cmdexec execute a command when terraform plan.
This provider was originally created for penetration testing of CI/CD pipeline.

Requirements

• Terraform
• /bin/sh
• Go (to build the provider plugin)

How to use

To install the provider, please run make install.

make install

To use the provider, please write datasource. value of command is executed.

data "cmdexec_execute" "sample" {
  command = "echo test"
}

To get output of the executed command when terraform plan, please write resource.

resource "cmdexec_output" "sample" {
  rc     = data.cmdexec_execute.sample.rc
  output = data.cmdexec_execute.sample.output
}

To build the provider for Linux(x64), please run make build-linux

make build-linux