terraform-docs/docs/user-guide/introduction.md

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Introduction	Generate documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats	docs parent user-guide	100	true

terraform-docs is a utility to generate documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats.

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Configuration

You can also have consistent execution through a .terraform-docs.yml file.

Once you set it up and configured it, every time you or your teammates want to regenerate documentation (manually, through a pre-commit hook, or as part of a CI pipeline) all you need to do is run terraform-docs /module/path.

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Read all about [configuration].

Formats

One of the most popular format is [markdown table], which is a very good fit for generating README of module.

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which produces:

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Read all about available [formats].

Compatibility

terraform-docs compatiblity matrix with Terraform can be found below:

terraform-docs	Terraform
>= 0.13	>= 0.15
>= 0.8, < 0.13	>= 0.12, < 0.15
< 0.8	< 0.12

[configuration]: {{< ref "configuration" >}} [formats]: {{< ref "terraform-docs" >}} [markdown table]: {{< ref "markdown-table" >}}