Terraform Style Guide

What it does

The Terraform Style Guide skill provides standardized formatting and best practices for writing Terraform configuration files. It helps ensure consistency across teams, improves readability, and enforces conventions that align with HashiCorp's official recommendations.

When to use it

• When multiple developers are working on the same Terraform project and need a shared standard for code style.
• Before committing Terraform configurations to version control to automatically format them according to best practices.
• When onboarding new team members who are unfamiliar with Terraform conventions.
• To maintain clean, readable infrastructure-as-code (IaC) across large or evolving projects.

Key capabilities

• Enforces consistent formatting of Terraform configuration files.
• Applies naming conventions for resources and variables.
• Ensures proper use of comments and documentation within configurations.
• Aligns with HashiCorp’s official Terraform Style Guide recommendations.

Example prompts

• "Format my Terraform code according to the HashiCorp style guide."
• "Check this Terraform configuration for compliance with standard formatting rules."
• "Apply the Terraform style guide to all modules in this project."

Tips & gotchas

• Ensure that your environment has the necessary tools (like terraform fmt) installed and configured.
• This skill works best when used alongside a linter or CI/CD pipeline to enforce style compliance automatically.