tfdocs-format-template is a minimal terraform-docs plugin that is built with plugin SDK and is meant to be used as a template for implementing new plugin. Most of the time you only need to modify and reorder the go template defined in sections.tmpl.

• Go 1.16+
• terraform-docs v0.16+

Optionally for releasing:

• gox

In order to install a plugin the following steps are needed:

• download the plugin and place it in ~/.tfdocs.d/plugins (or ./.tfdocs.d/plugins)
• make sure the plugin file name is tfdocs-format-<NAME> (e.g <NAME> should be template)
• modify formatter of .terraform-docs.yml file to be <NAME>

Important notes:

• if the plugin file name is different than the example above, terraform-docs won't be able to to pick it up nor register it properly.
• you can only use plugin thorough .terraform-docs.yml file and it cannot be used with CLI arguments

Create a repository from this by clicking Use this template and then clone the newly created repository locally and run the following command:

make

You can then install the plugin to ~/.tfdocs.d/plugins by running the following:

make install

Additionally you can override the destination of installation:

PLUGIN_FOLDER=/path/to/plugin/folder make install

Note that the plugin has to be built for target OS and archetecture (make build and make install do that,) but if you want to redistribute the plugin for other people to use you have to cross-compile it (for example you can use gox.)