A CLI to help with managing the installation and compilation of terraform providers when running a new M1 Mac.

While using my new Macbook with M1 chip I often encountered issues in client projects when working with Terraform projects. Either some terraform providers have no adapted to the new darwin_arm64 at all or the version of the used provider is pinned to an older version. In both cases, there is no pre-compiled binary for darwin_arm64 => you have to compile it yourself. There is a nice writeup on how to compile in a Terraform Issue. As I am constantly switching forth and back between using own-compiled binaries and pre-build, I wanted to have an elegant solution which manages all the details by itself.

brew install kreuzwerker/taps/m1-terraform-provider-helper

A CLI to manage the installation of terraform providers for the Mac M1 chip

Usage:
  m1-terraform-provider-helper [command]

Available Commands:
  activate    Activate the usage of m1 provider helper
  deactivate  Deactivate the usage of M1 provider helper
  help        Help about any command
  install     Downloads (and compiles) a terraform provider for the M1 chip
  status      Shows the status of the m1 provider installations

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for m1-terraform-provider-helper

Example: You want to install the terraform-provider-vault in version 2.10.0 because you are using it in a project and let's assume it has no pre-build binary for Mac M1:

m1-terraform-provider-helper activate # (In case you have not activated the helper)
m1-terraform-provider-helper install hashicorp/vault -v 2.10.0 # Install and compile

To run tests execute:

make test
make lint

in the project's root directory.

To build the app execute:

make build

in the project's root directory. This will generate the executable dist/m1-terraform-provider-helper file that you can run.

If you want to generate the changelog and see it only (it will neither commit, tag nor push) run one of the following commands:

make patch
make minor
make major

If you want it automated prepend TAG=1 to the command as follows:

# TAG=1 indicates to tag and generate the changelog
TAG=1 make minor
git push origin main --tags 

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.