Cloudflare Terraforming

Overview

cf-terraforming is a command line utility to facilitate terraforming your existing Cloudflare resources. It does this by using your account credentials to retrieve your configurations from the Cloudflare API and converting them to Terraform configurations that can be used with the Terraform Cloudflare provider.

This tool is ideal if you already have Cloudflare resources defined but want to start managing them via Terraform, and don't want to spend the time to manually write the Terraform configuration to describe them.

Read the announcement blog for further details on using cf-terraforming in your workflow.

Note If you would like to export resources compatible with Terraform < 0.12.x, you will need to download an older release as this tool no longer supports it.

Usage

Usage:
  cf-terraforming [command]

Available Commands:
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  generate    Fetch resources from the Cloudflare API and generate the respective Terraform stanzas
  help        Help about any command
  import      Output `terraform import` compatible commands in order to import resources into state
  version     Print the version number of cf-terraforming

Flags:
  -a, --account string                      Target the provided account ID for the command
  -c, --config string                       Path to config file (default "~/.cf-terraforming.yaml")
  -e, --email string                        API Email address associated with your account
  -h, --help                                help for cf-terraforming
      --hostname string                     Hostname to use to query the API
  -k, --key string                          API Key generated on the 'My Profile' page. See: https://dash.cloudflare.com/profile
      --modern-import-block                 Whether to generate HCL import blocks for generated resources instead of terraform import compatible CLI commands. This is only compatible with Terraform 1.5+
      --provider-registry-hostname string   Hostname to use for provider registry lookups (default "registry.terraform.io")
      --resource-type string                Comma delimitered string of which resource(s) you wish to generate
      --terraform-binary-path string        Path to an existing Terraform binary (otherwise, one will be downloaded)
      --terraform-install-path string       Path to an initialized Terraform working directory (default ".")
  -t, --token string                        API Token
  -v, --verbose                             Specify verbose output (same as setting log level to debug)
  -z, --zone string                         Target the provided zone ID for the command

Use "cf-terraforming [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Authentication

Cloudflare supports two authentication methods to the API:

• API Token - gives access only to resources and permissions specified for that token (recommended)
• API key - gives access to everything your user profile has access to

Both can be retrieved on the user profile page.

A note on storing your credentials securely: We recommend that you store your Cloudflare credentials (API key, email, token) as environment variables as demonstrated below.

# if using API Token
export CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN='Hzsq3Vub-7Y-hSTlAaLH3Jq_YfTUOCcgf22_Fs-j'

# if using API Key
export CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL='user@example.com'
export CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY='1150bed3f45247b99f7db9696fffa17cbx9'

# specify zone ID
export CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_ID='81b06ss3228f488fh84e5e993c2dc17'

# now call cf-terraforming, e.g.
cf-terraforming generate \
  --resource-type "cloudflare_record" \
  --zone $CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_ID

cf-terraforming supports the following environment variables:

• CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN - API Token based authentication
• CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL, CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY - API Key based authentication

Alternatively, if using a config file, then specify the inputs using the same names the flag names. Example:

cat ~/.cf-terraforming.yaml
email: "email@domain.com"
key: "<key>"
#or
token: "<token>"

Example usage

cf-terraforming generate \
  --zone $CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_ID \
  --resource-type "cloudflare_record"

will contact the Cloudflare API on your behalf and result in a valid Terraform configuration representing the resource you requested:

resource "cloudflare_record" "terraform_managed_resource" {
  name = "example.com"
  proxied = false
  ttl = 120
  type = "A"
  value = "198.51.100.4"
  zone_id = "0da42c8d2132a9ddaf714f9e7c920711"
}

Prerequisites

• A Cloudflare account with resources defined (e.g. a few zones, some load balancers, spectrum applications, etc)
• A valid Cloudflare API key and sufficient permissions to access the resources you are requesting via the API
• An initialised Terraform directory (terraform init has run and providers installed). See the provider documentation if you have not yet setup the Terraform directory.

Installation

Homebrew

brew tap cloudflare/cloudflare
brew install cloudflare/cloudflare/cf-terraforming

Note If you have installed an older version of cf-terraforming via Homebrew, you may need to first uninstall cf-terraforming and then install it to pick up the updated install process and address the signing/notarisation issues.

Go

go install github.com/cloudflare/cf-terraforming/cmd/cf-terraforming@latest

If you use another OS, you will need to download the release directly from GitHub Releases or build the Go source.

Importing with Terraform state

cf-terraforming has the ability to generate the configuration for you to import existing resources.

Depending on your version of Terraform, you can generate the import block (Terraform 1.5+) using the --modern-import-block flag or the terraform import compatible CLI output (all versions).

This command assumes you have already ran cf-terraforming generate ... to output your resources.

# All versions of Terraform
cf-terraforming import \
  --resource-type "cloudflare_record" \
  --email $CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL \
  --key $CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY \
  --zone $CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_ID

# Terraform 1.5+ only
cf-terraforming import \
  --resource-type "cloudflare_record" \
  --modern-import-block \
  --email $CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL \
  --key $CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY \
  --zone $CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_ID

Using non-standard registries

By default, we use the Hashicorp registry (registry.terraform.io) for looking up the provider to introspect the schema. If you are attempting to use another registry, you will need to provide the --provider-registry-hostname flag or CLOUDFLARE_PROVIDER_REGISTRY_HOSTNAME environment variable to query the correct registry.

Using non-standard Terraform binaries

Internally, we use terraform-exec library to run Terraform operations in the same way that the CLI tooling would. If a terraform binary is not available on your system path, we will attempt to download the latest to use it.

Should you have the binary stored in a non-standard location, want to use an existing binary, or you wish to provide a Terraform compatible binary (such as tofu), you need to provide the --terraform-binary-path flag or CLOUDFLARE_TERRAFORM_BINARY_PATH environment variable to instruct cf-terraforming which you expect to use.

Supported Resources

Any resources not listed are currently not supported.

Resource	Resource Scope	Generate Supported	Import Supported
cloudflare_access_application	Account	✅	❌
cloudflare_access_group	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_access_identity_provider	Account	✅	❌
cloudflare_access_mutual_tls_certificate	Account	✅	❌
cloudflare_access_policy	Account	❌	❌
cloudflare_access_rule	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_access_service_token	Account	✅	❌
cloudflare_account_member	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_api_shield	Zone	✅	❌
cloudflare_api_token	User	❌	❌
cloudflare_argo	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_authenticated_origin_pulls	Zone	❌	❌
cloudflare_authenticated_origin_pulls_certificate	Zone	❌	❌
cloudflare_bot_management	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_byo_ip_prefix	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_certificate_pack	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_custom_hostname	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_custom_hostname_fallback_origin	Account	✅	❌
cloudflare_custom_pages	Account or Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_custom_ssl	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_filter	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_firewall_rule	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_healthcheck	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_ip_list	Account	❌	✅
cloudflare_load_balancer	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_load_balancer_monitor	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_load_balancer_pool	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_logpull_retention	Zone	❌	❌
cloudflare_logpush_job	Zone	✅	❌
cloudflare_logpush_ownership_challenge	Zone	❌	❌
cloudflare_magic_firewall_ruleset	Account	❌	❌
cloudflare_origin_ca_certificate	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_page_rule	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_rate_limit	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_record	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_ruleset	Account or Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_spectrum_application	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_tiered_cache	Zone	✅	❌
cloudflare_teams_list	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_teams_location	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_teams_proxy_endpoint	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_teams_rule	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_tunnel	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_turnstile_widget	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_url_normalization_settings	Zone	✅	❌
cloudflare_waf_group	Zone	❌	❌
cloudflare_waf_override	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_waf_package	Zone	✅	❌
cloudflare_waf_rule	Zone	❌	❌
cloudflare_waiting_room	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_worker_cron_trigger	Account	❌	❌
cloudflare_worker_route	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_worker_script	Account	❌	❌
cloudflare_workers_kv	Account	❌	❌
cloudflare_workers_kv_namespace	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_zone	Account	✅	✅
cloudflare_zone_dnssec	Zone	❌	❌
cloudflare_zone_lockdown	Zone	✅	✅
cloudflare_zone_settings_override	Zone	✅	❌

Testing

To ensure changes don't introduce regressions this tool uses an automated test suite consisting of HTTP mocks via go-vcr and Terraform configuration files to assert against. The premise is that we mock the HTTP responses from the Cloudflare API to ensure we don't need to create and delete real resources to test. The Terraform files then allow us to build what the resource structure is expected to look like and once the tool parses the API response, we can compare that to the static file.

Suggested local testing steps:

1. Create a file with the basic provider configuration (do not commit this file)

cat > main.tf <<EOF
terraform {
  required_providers {
    cloudflare = {
      source = "cloudflare/cloudflare"
      version = "~> 4"
    }
  }
}
EOF

2. Initialize terraform

terraform init

3. Run tests (Cloudflare Install path should be path to repository)

make test

If you want to run a specific test case you can do so with the TESTARGS variable and -run flag

TESTARGS="-run '^TestResourceGeneration/cloudflare_teams_list'" make test

Updating VCR cassettes

Periodically, it is a good idea to recreate the VCR cassettes used in our testing to ensure they haven't drifted from actual responses. To do this, you will need to:

• Create the appropriate resource in a Cloudflare account/zone you have access to. This is required as overwriting cassettes makes real API requests on your behalf.
• Invoke the test suite with OVERWRITE_VCR_CASSETTES=true, CLOUDFLARE_DOMAIN=<real domain here>, authentication credentials (CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL, CLOUDFLARE_KEY, CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN) and the test you want to update. Example of updating the DNS CAA record test with a zone I own:

  OVERWRITE_VCR_CASSETTES=true \
    CLOUDFLARE_DOMAIN="terraform.cfapi.net" \
    CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL="jb@example.com" \
    CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY="..." \
    TESTARGS="-run '^TestResourceGeneration/cloudflare_record_caa'"  \
    make test

• Commit your changes and push them via a Pull Request.