[bloopernova]

Are there any plans for a conditional way to enable/disable modules that doesn't use "count"?

For example:

  # current method
  module "foo" {
    count = var.enable_foo ? 1 : 0
  }

  # better?
  module "bar" {
    enabled = var.enable_bar
  }

Preconditions and postconditions fail the apply run if their condition doesn't validate, so those can't be used.

I'd also really like to be able to say in an output block, "this value doesn't have to exist, only display it if its parent module is enabled", again without the "count" attribute.

[cube2222]

The relevant issue[0] is currently the 7th top-voted[1] feature request, so it's definitely high on our radar. Please upvote it as well, if it's important to you!

There's a bunch of nontrivial technical complexity though, because of how OpenTofu currently works.

[0]: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/1306

[1]: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/1496

[paulddraper]

Use CDKTF.

All of these "how can I do X in HCL" just go away.

[lkjfoawerasfw]

I do agree CDKTF is an improvement over HCL, but aren't you bothered by being blocked by terraform itself? You have to resort to intrinsics [1].

This is why I dropped CDK for TF in favor of Pulumi, although I do feel Terraform has more maturity and polish but not enough to warrant its limitations.

[1]: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cdktf/concepts/fun...

[paulddraper]

Once in a while, I forget to use Fn when I should.

But I'll take that annoyance anyday over the absolute pain of HCL.

I haven't tried Pulumi, I will eventually. (Cloud services have TF providers more often than Pulumi ones. But if Pulumi is easy to extend, maybe doesn't matter.)

[everforward]

I suspect Pulumi is easy to extend because most of the API is basically a state-preserving, idempotent wrapper around existing APIs. When I was messing with it on GCP, their API almost always used the exact same objects the GCP API accepted. I could actually use the GCP docs to create the objects (there are big upsides and downsides to this).