Use randomly generated identifiers by default (#396)

* Use randomly generated identifiers by default

Closes #379 and #390

* remove example in readme

Co-authored-by: DavidGOrtega <[email protected]>

Author: 0x2b3bfa0

docs/guides/getting-started.md

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ terraform {
 }
 provider "iterative" {}
 resource "iterative_task" "task" {
-  name    = "example"
   cloud   = "aws" # or any of: gcp, az, k8s
   machine = "m"
 

docs/index.md

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ terraform {
 }
 provider "iterative" {}
 resource "iterative_task" "task" {
-  name  = "example"
   cloud = "aws"
 
   script = <<-END

docs/resources/task.md

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ This resource will:
 
 ```hcl
 resource "iterative_task" "task" {
-  name  = "example"
   cloud = "aws"
 
   environment = { GREETING = "Hello, world!" }
@@ -30,12 +29,12 @@ resource "iterative_task" "task" {
 
 ### Required
 
-- `name` - (Required) Task name.
 - `cloud` - (Required) Cloud provider to run the task on; valid values are `aws`, `gcp`, `az` and `k8s`.
 - `script` - (Required) Script to run; must begin with a valid [shebang](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)>).
 
 ### Optional
 
+- `name` - (Optional) Deterministic task name.
 - `region` - (Optional) [Cloud region/zone](#cloud-regions) to run the task on.
 - `machine` - (Optional) See [Machine Types](#machine-types) below.
 - `disk_size` - (Optional) Size of the ephemeral machine storage.

iterative/resource_task.go

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/aohorodnyk/uid"
+
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/diag"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/helper/schema"
 
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ func resourceTask() *schema.Resource {
 			"name": {
 				Type:     schema.TypeString,
 				ForceNew: true,
-				Required: true,
+				Optional: true,
 			},
 			"cloud": {
 				Type:     schema.TypeString,
@@ -162,14 +164,15 @@ func resourceTaskCreate(ctx context.Context, d *schema.ResourceData, m interface
 		return diagnostic(diags, err, diag.Error)
 	}
 
-	if err := task.Create(ctx); err == nil {
-		d.SetId(task.GetIdentifier(ctx).Long())
-	} else {
+	d.SetId(task.GetIdentifier(ctx).Long())
+
+	if err := task.Create(ctx); err != nil {
 		diags = diagnostic(diags, err, diag.Error)
-		if err := task.Delete(ctx); err == nil {
-			diags = diagnostic(diags, errors.New("failed to create"), diag.Error)
-		} else {
+		if err := task.Delete(ctx); err != nil {
 			diags = diagnostic(diags, err, diag.Error)
+		} else {
+			diags = diagnostic(diags, errors.New("failed to create"), diag.Error)
+			d.SetId("")
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -316,7 +319,22 @@ func resourceTaskBuild(ctx context.Context, d *schema.ResourceData, m interface{
 		Parallelism: uint16(d.Get("parallelism").(int)),
 	}
 
-	return task.New(ctx, c, common.Identifier(d.Get("name").(string)), t)
+	name := d.Id()
+	if name == "" {
+		if identifier := d.Get("name").(string); identifier != "" {
+			name = identifier
+		} else if identifier := os.Getenv("GITHUB_RUN_ID"); identifier != "" {
+			name = identifier
+		} else if identifier := os.Getenv("CI_PIPELINE_ID"); identifier != "" {
+			name = identifier
+		} else if identifier := os.Getenv("BITBUCKET_STEP_TRIGGERER_UUID"); identifier != "" {
+			name = identifier
+		} else {
+			name = uid.NewProvider36Size(8).MustGenerate().String()
+		}
+	}
+
+	return task.New(ctx, c, common.Identifier(name), t)
 }
 
 func diagnostic(diags diag.Diagnostics, err error, severity diag.Severity) diag.Diagnostics {