Terminal

The Terminal panel in the right side of the Workspace Editor provides a full command-line interface running inside a Docker container. This is where Terraform commands are executed.

• Click the 'Terminal' tab in the right panel
• The terminal connects to your VS Container (Docker container) automatically

1. 1

   Command Execution

   • Type commands and press Enter to execute
   • Supports all standard Linux/Bash commands
   • Pre-installed tools: Terraform/OpenTofu, Git, cloud provider CLIs
   • Commands run inside an isolated Docker container
2. 2

   Color-Coded Output

   • Green: Success messages
   • Red: Error messages
   • Yellow: Warning messages
   • White/Gray: Informational output
3. 3

   Terminal Search

   • Click the search icon in the terminal toolbar
   • Type to search for text in the terminal history
   • Use arrow keys to navigate between matches
   • Press Escape to close search
4. 4

   Context Menu (Right-Click)

   • Right-click anywhere in the terminal to open the context menu
   • Options:
   • Copy: Copy selected text
   • Paste: Paste from clipboard
   • Select All: Select all terminal content
   • Clear: Clear the terminal screen
5. 5

   Command Palette

   • Click the command palette icon in the terminal toolbar
   • Provides quick access to common commands:
   • terraform init
   • terraform plan
   • terraform apply
   • terraform destroy
   • terraform validate
   • terraform fmt
   • git status
   • git pull
6. 6

   Web Links

   • URLs appearing in terminal output are automatically made clickable
   • Click a link to open it in a new browser tab
7. 7

   Terminal Scrollback

   • Scroll up to view previous command output
   • The terminal maintains a history buffer

• terraform init: Initialize working directory and download providers
• terraform validate: Check configuration for syntax errors
• terraform plan -out=tfplan: Create and save a plan
• terraform apply tfplan: Apply the saved plan
• terraform destroy: Destroy all managed resources
• terraform state list: List all resources in state
• terraform output: Show output values
• terraform fmt: Format code to canonical style