[swift] Terraform has deprecated the Swift backend

Alvaro Soto alsotoes at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 15:49:22 UTC 2022


S3 will do it.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 9:21 AM Clay Gerrard <clay.gerrard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you use the swift backend for terraform state storage?  It looks like
> they're dumping a bunch of other backends too - maybe they did a
> user-survey and they're just keeping the top-5 cloud providers or something.
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 4:24 PM Andrew Ruthven <andrew at etc.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> It has come to our attention that Terraform has recently added
>> deprecation messages to a number of backends, including Swift[0], warning
>> that these backends will be removed in a future version of Terraform.
>> Unfortunately we don't have the bandwidth within Catalyst Cloud to pick
>> this up, but I was hopeful that there'd be others on this list who share
>> our concern.
>>
>> It looks as though Terraform has had the Swift backend marked as
>> unmaintained since at least March 2020[1].
>>
>> If there is another backend, or another method of managing Swift that
>> isn't the S3 API then I'd be keen to hear about it.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Andrew
>>
>> [0]
>> https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commit/7941b2fbdc33a42a68b9b32af51e09f7df35fe66
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commit/c434db158e631b0bfddb92e1dd342b924880f29a
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealandandrew at etc.gen.nz         |
>> Catalyst Cloud:           | This space intentionally left blank
>>  https://catalystcloud.nz |
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Clay Gerrard
> 210 788 9431
>


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