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Intellij Terraform Plugin Support

For full plugin details go to https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7808-hashicorp-terraform–hcl-language-support

Problem:

  • Make terraform scripting easier with autocomplete and syntax highlighting.

Solution:

  • The Intellij Terraform Plugin has auto-complete and many more features outlined below.

Basically this plugin is excellent for auto-completion, if you are not using it for terraform already do so now!

###Features:

For file formats using HCL (.hcl, .tf, .nomad):
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Structure outline in the ‘Structure’ tool window
  • Code formatter with the ‘Reformat code’ action available
  • Code folding
  • The ‘Comment/Uncomment’ action
  • For HIL files:
  • Syntax highlighting

  • Terraform specific support:

  • In both configuration files and interpolations:
  • Autocompletion
  • Find Usages / Go to definition for resources, providers, variables and their properties
  • Rename Refactoring
  • Introduce Variable Refactoring (for string property values)
  • Several inspections
  • Report usage of deprecated properties
  • Unresolved reference checks (in interpolations)
  • Check required/missing properties in resource/provider
  • Predefined Terraform methods autocompletion in interpolations
  • (WIP) Better properties validation (type checking)
  • (WIP) Working with dependent modules
  • (WIP) Type-specific autocompletion in interpolations