HashiConf Digital June 2020: Terraform News in Review

HashiCorp's annual gathering of practitioners, HashiConf, was transformed into a digital event called HashiConf Digital due to the situation at hand, allowing more than 6500 attendees to participate over three days with sold-out workshops and great conversations. The latest edition of HashiConf featured the announcement of Terraform 0.13, which brings significant changes to developer experience, including improved type systems, contextual error messages, and reusable infrastructure components through modules. Additionally, Terraform 0.13 introduces a new validation syntax for variables, allowing operators to write more robust code with custom validation rules. The release of version 2.0.0 of the Terraform Extension for Visual Studio Code also includes support for Terraform 0.12 and 0.13 syntax, as well as improved autocompletion for cloud providers. HashiCorp's senior engineer Kristin Laemmert discussed the reasoning behind not yet releasing Terraform 1.0, citing concerns over backward compatibility and product stability. The Terraform Registry has seen rapid adoption and expansion of supported services, with automatic installation of providers through terraform init.

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