FalcoSuessgott / terraform-provider-dotfiles

A terraform provider for linking and copying files across the filesystem, useful as a dotfile manager

terraform-provider-dotfiles

still work in progress

An experimental terraform provider for linking and copying files across the filesystem, aimed to be used as a dotfile manager

Why

• terraform comes with a clean and flexible HCL syntax including lots in integrations like vscode-plugins, linter etc.
• rich featureset of predefined functions useful for customizing and automating your dotfile setup
• can be combined with more than 1000 other useful provider, such as docker, restapi and many other
• state based, which can be used to deploy your dotfiles across many machines and reset them to a certain state

Example

terraform {
  required_providers {
    dotfiles = {
      source  = "FalcoSuessgott/dotfiles"
      version = "0.0.1"
    }
  }
}

provider "dotfiles" {}

resource "dotfiles_link_file" "bashrc" {
  src  = abspath("configs/bashrc")
  dest = pathexpand("~/.bashrc")
}

resource "dotfiles_copy_file" "zshrc" {
  src  = abspath("configs/zshrc")
  dest = pathexpand("~/.zshrc")
}

resource "dotfiles_copy_file" "aliases" {
  content = <<EOT
alias ll="ls -la"
EOT

  dest = pathexpand("~/.bash_aliases")
}