Time Provider

The time provider is used to interact with time-based resources. The provider itself has no configuration options.

Use the navigation to the left to read about the available resources.

Resource "Triggers"

Certain time resources, only perform actions during specific lifecycle actions:

These resources provide an optional map argument called triggers that can be populated with arbitrary key/value pairs. When the keys or values of this argument are updated, Terraform will re-perform the desired action, such as updating the base timestamp or sleeping again.

For example:

resource "time_static" "ami_update" {
  triggers = {
    # Save the time each switch of an AMI id
    ami_id = data.aws_ami.example.id
  }
}

resource "aws_instance" "server" {
  # Read the AMI id "through" the time_static resource to ensure that
  # both will change together.
  ami = time_static.ami_update.triggers.ami_id

  tags = {
    AmiUpdateTime = time_static.ami_update.rfc3339
  }

  # ... (other aws_instance arguments) ...
}

triggers are not treated as sensitive attributes; a value used for triggers will be displayed in Terraform UI output as plaintext.

To force a these actions to reoccur without updating triggers, the terraform taint command can be used to produce the action on the next run.