Using the TFLint plugin

Integrate the TFLint plugin with env zero to analyze Terraform code for syntax errors, deprecated syntax, and best-practice violations during deployments.

Overview

This plugin executes the TFLint CLI to analyze your code and find possible errors, receive warnings about deprecated syntax, and enforce best practices and naming conventions.

This plugin will install the TFLint binary, call init and execute tflint on the given directory.

For more information, check out the TFLint Plugin git repository

For an example repository that integrates the TFLint plugin, click here.

Inputs

Set these under inputs when you add the plugin to a custom flow step:

1. version (required) - the specific version of tflint you wish to use
2. directory (required) - the path to the directory with the IaC code to analyze (the root folder is your project’s root folder)
3. flags - a string containing additional flags as one string

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