Use tenv instead of tfswitch

[kvendingoldo]

Hi,
I've noticed that you're using tfswitch for version management. It's sad, but tfswitch does not support OpenTofu.
My team created a project tenv that supports Terraform, OpenTofu and Terragrunt in one tool. I suggest to migrate to it, because it allow you to manage everything related to Terraform just by one tool.

You're also welcome to open any issues or contribute to tenv.

[MatthewJohn]

Hi @kvendingoldo,

Whilst I appreciate the request, having read through the documentation, I find it somewhat complex. To use a third party tool as part of another application, I need to know exactly what it is going to do:

• It's not obvious what "detect" does - does this just detect or detect and install?
• It's not obvious how "install" determines exactly what version to use
• I can't see any direct support for HTTP proxies

tfswitch does one job and is quite explicit in how it does it. I would like to get tfswitch to support opentofu, which I'm going to be working on in the background

Matt

[kvendingoldo]

hi @MatthewJohn , thank you for your response. I think that we will cover all of your points in tenv (I will add more clear information about №1, №2 to README.md). Can you also clarify what do you mean about HTTP proxies?

[kvendingoldo]

O, looks like that I see: ["tfswitch", "--mirror", "https://localhost-archive/mirror/terraform", "--bin", f"{os.getcwd()}/bin/terraform"]. tenv can use custom mirror via TFENV_REMOTE / TOFUENV_REMOTE / TG_REMOTE.

[dvaumoron]

tenv <tool> detect may install something depending on TENV_AUTO_INSTALL var. It is possible to use -n flag to disable autoinstall.

The version resolution order is specified, indicating which file will be looked, with the install subcommand, the last thing tried when there is no version file found is the latest behavior, which search the latest stable version.

[MatthewJohn]

Created gitlab issue: https://gitlab.dockstudios.co.uk/pub/terrareg/-/issues/520
gitlab-issue-id:520

[MatthewJohn]

Given that we are adding support for Opentofu to tfswitch (warrensbox/terraform-switcher#435), we are already using tfswitch and tfswitch is somewhat simpler and more directed at what we are trying to achieve with the tool, I'm not sure of the benefit from switching

[kvendingoldo]

Good efforts! If it's not difficult, can you tell us, in which cases tfswitch is simpler? It will help us to make tenv better.