PSTerraformParser

I hope someday this functionality ends up native in Terraform, but for now, we have PowerShell.

PSTerraformParser is a module designed to take the string output from your terraform plans and return them in a standardised json format.

🐱‍💻 PSTerraformParser is built and tested in Azure DevOps and is distributed via the PowerShell gallery.

Installation

PSTerraformParser is compatible with Windows PowerShell 5.x and PowerShell Core 6.x.

Install-Module -Name PSTerraformParser -Scope CurrentUser -Force

Features

Terraform Plan Parsing

Since the output from Terraform plan is just plan text and not easily readable for automation, I've done the hard work and provided it in json format for you. Just use the following command

terraform plan -no-color >> .\MyPlan.txt

Read-TerraformPlan -Path .\MyPlan.txt

IMPORTANT: I can't parse the file produced by the -out=path argument for terraform plan which is a binary file. There is not a stable specification for this binary file format so, at this time, it is safer to parse the somewhat structured textual output that gets written to stdout.

Further reading

For more information pertaining to Terraform, head to their website terraform.

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