Automated Dependency Updates for Terraform

Categories: iac, terraform

Renovate supports updating Terraform dependencies.

File Matching¶

By default, Renovate will check any files matching any of the following regular expressions:

**/*.tf
**/*.tofu

For details on how to extend a manager's managerFilePatterns value, please follow this link.

Supported datasources¶

This manager supports extracting the following datasources: bitbucket-tags, docker, git-tags, github-tags, github-releases, helm, terraform-module, terraform-provider.

Default config¶

{
  "commitMessageTopic": "Terraform {{depName}}",
  "managerFilePatterns": [
    "**/*.tf",
    "**/*.tofu"
  ],
  "pinDigests": false
}

Additional Information¶

Terraform vs OpenTofu¶

Renovate can not know if you want to use the Terraform or OpenTofu registry. By default, Renovate uses the Terraform registry (registry.terraform.io) for providers and modules without a registry definition.

You can override this default with your own packageRules, for example:

Prefer releases from OpenTofu

{
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "matchDatasources": ["terraform-provider", "terraform-module"],
      "registryUrls": ["https://registry.opentofu.org"]
    }
  ]
}

Supported dependencies¶

Renovate supports updating the Terraform dependencies listed below. Check the tables to see where some dependencies can be hosted.

Modules¶

Name	Public hosting	Private hosting
GitTags	yes	yes
GithubTags	yes	yes
TerraformRegistry	yes	yes

Providers¶

Providers are deprecated in Terraform 0.13.0.

Name	Public hosting	Private hosting
TerraformRegistry	yes	yes

required_providers block¶

Needs Terraform >= 0.13.0.

Name	Public hosting	Private hosting
TerraformRegistry	yes	yes

required_version¶

Renovate can update the required_version attribute of the Terraform block.

helm_release¶

Renovate can update the version attribute of helm_release resources. This applies to both helm chart repositories and charts published in OCI registries.

Name	Public hosting	Private hosting
chart repository	yes	yes

Docker¶

Renovate can update image references of the Docker provider resources (docker\_\*).

Name	Public hosting	Private hosting
Docker registry	yes	yes

Kubernetes¶

Renovate can update image references of Kubernetes provider resources (kubernetes\_\*).

Name	Public hosting	Private hosting
Docker registry	yes	yes

tfe_workspaces¶

Renovate can update tfe_workspaces. Renovate searches for the terraform_version argument.

Range constraints¶

Renovate understands these Terraform range constraints:

Terraform range	Notes
`>= 1.2.0`	version `1.2.0` or newer
`<= 1.2.0`	version `1.2.0` or older
`~> 1.2.0`	any non-beta version `>= 1.2.0` and `< 1.3.0`, e.g. `1.2.X`
`~> 1.2`	any non-beta version `>= 1.2.0` and `< 2.0.0`, e.g. `1.X.Y`
`>= 1.0.0, <= 2.0.0`	any version between `1.0.0` and `2.0.0` inclusive

Disabling parts of the manager¶

You can use these depTypes for fine-grained control, for example to disable parts of the Terraform manager.

Resource	`depType`	Notes
Terraform provider	`provider`
required Terraform provider	`required_provider`
required Terraform version	`required_version`	This handles the `required_version` in terraform blocks
TFE workspace	`tfe_workspace`	This handles the `terraform_version` argument in `tfe_workspace` resources
Terraform module	`module`
Helm release	`helm_release`
Docker container	`docker_container`
Docker image	`docker_image`
Docker service	`docker_service`
Kubernetes CronJob	`kubernetes_cron_job`
Kubernetes CronJob v1	`kubernetes_cron_job_v1`
Kubernetes DaemonSet	`kubernetes_daemon_set`
Kubernetes DaemonSet v1	`kubernetes_daemon_set_v1`
Kubernetes Deployment	`kubernetes_deployment`
Kubernetes Deployment v1	`kubernetes_deployment_v1`
Kubernetes Job	`kubernetes_job`
Kubernetes Job v1	`kubernetes_job_v1`
Kubernetes Pod	`kubernetes_pod`
Kubernetes Pod v1	`kubernetes_pod_v1`
Kubernetes Replication Controller	`kubernetes_replication_controller`
Kubernetes Replication Controller v1	`kubernetes_replication_controller_v1`
Kubernetes StatefulSet	`kubernetes_stateful_set`
Kubernetes StatefulSet v1	`kubernetes_stateful_set_v1`

Data Source	`depType`	Notes
Docker registry image	`docker_registry_image`

If you need to change the versioning format, read the versioning documentation to learn more.