block

Part of a text file: a block that should, or should not, be there.

step "example" {
  block {
    path = "..."
  }
}

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Description
content	string	No	Lines of the block.
create	bool	No	Create the file when it is missing. Otherwise a missing file is an error.
insert_after	string	No	Where a new block goes: after the last match of this regexp, or “EOF” (default).
insert_before	string	No	Where a new block goes: before the first match of this regexp, or “BOF”.
marker	string	No	Marker line with {mark}, which becomes BEGIN and END. Defaults to “# {mark} CONN3X MANAGED BLOCK”.
on_remove	string	No	“forget” (default) leaves the file as it is, “delete” takes the edit back out.
path	string	Yes	Absolute path of the file.
state	string	No	“present” (default) or “absent”.

Read-only attributes

Conn3x sets these; reference them as conn3x_block.<circuit>__<step>["<host>"].<name>.

Name	Type	Description
in_sync	bool	Whether the file already matches.

A step lowers to the conn3x_block resource, one instance per host, and connects with its circuit’s ssh block.