This terraform provider allows to perform Create ,Read ,Update, Delete and Import stripe Users.

Requirements

• Go 1.16 (To build the provider plugin)
  
• Terraform 0.13.x
  
• Stripe Stripe API Documentation

Application Account

Setup

1. Create a Stripe account. (https://dashboard.stripe.com/register)
   
2. Sign in to the stripe account (https://dashboard.stripe.com/login)
   

API Authentication

Go to the Developers -> API Keys -> Standard Keys and select Secret Key.
This app will provide us with the Secret Key which will be needed to configure our provider and make request.

Building The Provider

1. Clone the repository, add all the dependencies and create a vendor directory that contains all dependencies. For this, run the following commands:
   

cd terraform-provider-stripe
go mod init terraform-provider-stripe
go mod tidy
go mod vendor

Managing terraform plugins

For Windows:

1. Run the following command to create a vendor sub-directory (%APPDATA%/terraform.d/plugins/${host_name}/${namespace}/${type}/${version}/${OS_ARCH}) which will consist of all terraform plugins.
   Command:

mkdir -p %APPDATA%/terraform.d/plugins/hashicorp.com/edu/stripe/0.2.0/windows_amd64

2. Run go build -o terraform-provider-stripe.exe to generate the binary in present working directory.
   
3. Run this command to move this binary file to the appropriate location.

move terraform-provider-stripe.exe %APPDATA%\terraform.d\plugins\hashicorp.com\edu\stripe\0.2.0\windows_amd64

[OR]

3. Manually move the file from current directory to destination directory (%APPDATA%\terraform.d\plugins\hashicorp.com\edu\stripe\0.2.0\windows_amd64).
   

Working with terraform

Application Credential Integration in terraform

1. Add terraform block and provider block as shown in example usage.
2. Get the credentials: secretkey
3. Assign the above credentials to the respective field in the provider block.

Basic Terraform Commands

1. terraform init - To initialize a working directory containing Terraform configuration files.
2. terraform plan - To create an execution plan. Displays the changes to be done.
3. terraform apply - To execute the actions proposed in a Terraform plan. Apply the changes.

Create User

1. Add the user data in the respective field in resource block as shown in example usage.
2. Initialize the terraform provider terraform init
3. Check the changes applicable using terraform plan and apply using terraform apply
4. You will see that a user has been successfully created.

Update the user

Update the data of the user in resource block as show in example usage file and apply using terraform apply

Read the User Data

Add data and output blocks as shown in the example usage and run terraform plan to read user data.

Delete the user

Delete the resource block of the particular user and run terraform apply.

Import a User Data

1. Write manually a resource configuration block for the user as shown in example usage. Imported user will be mapped to this block.
2. Run the command terraform import stripe_user.user1 [EMAIL_ID]
3. Check for the attributes in the .tfstate file and fill them accordingly in resource block.

Example Usage

terraform {
  required_providers{
    stripe ={
      version ="0.2"
      source = "hashicorp.com/edu/stripe"
    }
  }
}

provider "stripe" {
  secretkey = _REPLACE_STRIPE_USER_SECRETKEY"
}


data "stripe_user" "user" {
  email = "user@domain.com"
}

output "user" {
  value = data.stripe_user.user
}

resource "stripe_user" "user1" {
  email = "user@domain.com"
  name = "User_Name"
  description = "User_Description"
  phone = "User_Phone_No"
}

Argument Reference

• secretkey(required, string) - The secretkey for stripe user. This may also be set via the "STRIPE_TOKEN" environment variable.
• email(required, string) - Email of the user.
• name(optional, string) - Name of the User.
• description(optional, string) - Description of the User.
• phone(optional, string) - Phone No of the User.