Stop instances

[magg]

How can I specify the state of my instances to be stopped once they are created?

terraform -v
Terraform v0.11.11
+ provider.oci v3.1.1

Something like this is should be useful for everyone

 terraform oci_core_instance.TFInstance -state="STOPPED"

[alexng-canuck]

Hi @magg ,

AFAIK, terraform <Resource Name> -state="<State>" is not a syntactically valid Terraform command. Are you suggesting that the Terraform command should be able to directly modify the attributes of arbitrary resources? If so, this is feedback that would get more traction in the https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues project.

That being said, a possible improvement to the OCI provider would be to allow specifying the state in your TF configuration like this.

resource oci_core_instance TFInstance {
  ...
  power_state = "STOPPED"
}

and then running terraform apply

[magg]

Yes that would be nice for terraform to allow that syntax to manage the vm's state but i think that won't happen any time soon.

According to these: they think providers should implement such feature

hashicorp/terraform#1579
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm#555

In any case that improvement you mentioned sounds good

but how would i turn it back on?

resource oci_core_instance TFInstance {
  ...
  power_state = "RUNNING"
}

and then terraform apply?

[alexng-canuck]

This would need more design input, because there are certain actions like "RESET" or "SOFT_RESET" for which it's hard to say what the final state should be and would cause issues if Terraform were to store those values in the state file.

But the general idea in my last comment is that this should be achieved through modifying the configuration file rather than as cmdline input.

[kilokahn]

The feature is now available in the v3.18.0 of the provider.