0.2.0: "terraform plan" complains about usage error that is not obvious to me :-)

[larryg-sg]

I've been playing with Terraform 0.1.1, and I got a minimal setup going that let me run terraform plan without any extra options. But with 0.2.0, terraform plan gives me the usage help message, as if it is expecting something extra on the command line—but I can't figure out what. I've tried adding -var and -var-file options, but nothing changes.

I have a directory with the following.

aws.tf:

variable "aws_access_key" {}
variable "aws_secret_key" {}

provider "aws" {
  access_key = "${var.aws_access_key}"
  secret_key = "${var.aws_secret_key}"
  region = "us-west-2"
}

qa-elb.tf:

resource "aws_elb" "qa-dispatch" {
  name = "qa-dispatch"
  availability_zones = ["us-west-2b"]

  instances = []

  health_check {
    healthy_threshold = 6
    unhealthy_threshold = 2
    target = "HTTPS:443/ping"
    interval = 30
    timeout = 5
  }

  listener {
    instance_protocol = "HTTPS"
    instance_port = 443
    lb_protocol = "HTTPS"
    lb_port = 443
  }
}

terraform.tfvars:

aws_access_key=<redacted>
aws_secret_key=<redacted>

[mitchellh]

Strange, I'm going to give this a shot now.

[mitchellh]

Reproduced. Odd. Looking.

[mitchellh]

Found the bug, you can workaround it by putting spaces between = in your tfvars file.

[mitchellh]

But we're going to fix this now.

[mitchellh]

Fixed here: hashicorp/hcl@71e25b3

[larryg-sg]

One other thing I should note: The values I used in my .tfvars file were unquoted. So in addition to putting space around the equals operator, I had to enclose the values in double quotes. This was a successful workaround.

Thanks!

[rahulbhatu]

@larryg-sg Thanks you so much for bringing this up here. i have been troubleshooting this for a couple of days now. Finally, terraform plan runs.

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