Use machine readable output for plan and apply

[leg100]

Internally use machine readable output from plan and apply, converting into human readable output while streaming. Parse former output to extract metadata.

[leg100]

Tried this. The machine readable output is not as verbose, and leaves out context info, e.g. the attributes that make up a resource are not shown unlike with the human readable output.

Need to decide whether users would be put off by this before implementing.

[davidjeddy]

Would you consider multiple levels of verbosity? I have found that developers like to see more output in there pipelines where as production pipelines do not need so much. -verbose={LEVEL} following the Linux output levels would be amazing.

[leg100]

@davidjeddy I'm not sure what you're proposing. Terraform already supports a TF_LOG={LEVEL} environment variable to set log verbosity. In terms of this issue, machine readable output is mutually exclusive with human readable output, you can't have both:

https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/internals/machine-readable-ui

[davidjeddy]

was hoping the output of PUG itself could have levels. While TF TF_LOG was thinking PUG could have PUB_LOG for output of PUG specific runtime messages.

[leg100]

Pug has logging and levels already. Press l in the TUI. Change log level using the flag -l debug.