Updating terraform required_providers version

[syphernl]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

Currently Renovate updates .terraform-version and our Docker tag reference in .gitlab-ci.yml however in versions.tf we have a version too which is not being updated by Renovate and requires manual intervention to do so.

The versions.tf file looks like this:

terraform {
  required_providers {
    aws = {
      source  = "hashicorp/aws"
      version = "3.28.0"
    }
    gitlab = {
      source  = "gitlabhq/gitlab"
      version = "3.4.0"
    }
    random = {
      source  = "hashicorp/random"
      version = "3.0.1"
    }
  }
  required_version = "0.14.6"
}

I would have expected the required_version to be updated from 0.14.6 to 0.14.7 during the Renovate run.

Did you already have any implementation ideas?

Probably looking for the same version in required_providers and update it.
If it is a non-specific version (e.g. >= 0.13) it should probably take care of that as well in case the minor version goes up (e.g. 0.14.7 -> 0.15.0)

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[rarkins]

This needs logic added to the lib/manager/terraform/extract.ts so that it detects required_version and extracts it as a dependency

[viceice]

Workaround using a regex manager:

   {
      "fileMatch": ["\\.tf$"],
      "matchStrings": ["required_version\\s*=\\s*\"(?<currentValue>.+?)\""],
      "datasourceTemplate": "docker",
      "versioningTemplate": "hashicorp",
      "depNameTemplate": "hashicorp/terraform"
    }

[syphernl]

Awesome, thanks for the workaround @viceice 👍🏻!

[secustor]

@rarkins you can assign me this.

IMHO there should be a way to opt out of required_* updates. Maybe be a new package rule matcher could solve this.

[rarkins]

@secustor you could assign a depType perhaps? The way depType is used today by terraform/extract is a little redundant with datasource, although if you were to remove them then it would be a backwards-incompatible change needing a migration. e.g.

    Object {
      "datasource": "helm",
      "depName": "./charts/example",
      "depType": "helm",
      "registryUrls": Array [
        undefined,
      ],
      "skipReason": "local-chart",
    },

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