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Inform users when a new version is available #883

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rquadling opened this issue Aug 21, 2020 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #1735
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Inform users when a new version is available #883

rquadling opened this issue Aug 21, 2020 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #1735
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@rquadling
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Running 0.17 via pre-commit-terraform on a 0.13 terraform setup says that the variable validation is experimental which it isn't in terraform 0.13.

It would be useful to know have tflint inform us of a new version as it is not always easy to remember what tools work with what version.

Terraform lets you know of a new release even though you haven't update terraform. That pattern would be extremely useful.
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FWIW Terraform tells you this only when you run terraform version, and it looks like this:

Your version of Terraform is out of date! The latest version
is 0.13.0. You can update by downloading from https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html

That much definitely seems doable/useful, via a GitHub releases API call, with a download link. Is that what you have in mind?

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rquadling commented Aug 25, 2020 •
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Exactly what I poorly described.

Each week I run a container build including a load of tools (some of which can only supply the latest build, no versioning). The pipeline then checks what's new (essentially running the --version check on the installed code) and reports back what has changed.

I then create tickets to do the upgrades of the codebases that require that tool. This way, I'm in control of what tools are used in the pipelines AND I get notified when there's a change.

This provides a far saner approach than "just install the latest in the pipeline" or doing nothing and then being years out of date.

@bendrucker bendrucker changed the title Version checking. Inform users when a new version is available Oct 10, 2020
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