Problem: Survery Variables are not passed during Tofu Init #2554
Description
Issue
Survery Variables are not passed during Terraform/Tofu Init.
With OpenTofu starting from version 1.8.X, it is possible to pass variables to any part of the execution.
In my case this is specially helpful to define the backend location.
This is a sample of my .tf file:
terraform {
required_providers {
aws = {
source = "hashicorp/aws"
version = "~> 5.0"
}
}
backend "s3" {
bucket = "test"
key = replace(var.test_name, "/", "-")
region = var.region
}
}
I can define the backend location using a variable test_name, like this:
tofu init -var test_name=test_one
The Survey Variables are passed along on all other commands, except the init, what causes errors.
Impact
Other
Installation method
Docker
Database
MySQL, BoltDB, Postgres
Browser
Firefox, Chrome, Safari
Semaphore Version
Version: v2.10.35-a71a3c5-1730103926
Ansible Version
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Logs & errors
Error: Backend initialization required: please run "tofu init"
Manual installation - system information
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Configuration
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Additional information
I can workaround this issue passing environment variables such as TF_VAR_test_name=test_one, but this is very annoying and not user friendly.
Would it be much better if the Survey Variables were passed along the init command.