Terraform execution plan fails on HTTPS-enabled influxdb servers with self-signed certificates

[schahal]

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.11.8

Affected Resource(s)

provider.influxdb: v1.0.1

Terraform Configuration Files

provider “influxdb” {
 url      = “https://<my_host>:8443”
 username = “admin”
}

Debug Output

Failure available at https://gist.github.com/schahal/4f4fd3efedd6c1bf7215ce4a3cb0c0c7

Expected Behavior

Since this is an InfluxDB instance with HTTPS-enabled and a self-signed cert (not a valid certificate authority), the terraform execution plan should still successfully display

Actual Behavior

What actually happens is that when we run terraform plan, we get the following complaint:

provider.influxdb: error pinging server: Get https://<myHost>:8443/ping: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority

And we're unable to continue.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Make sure you have a running InfluxDB server
2. Create a self-signed certificate (using openssl)
3. Update InfluxDB config to enable https and point the cert to path of (2)
4. Restart InfluxDB to make sure HTTPs is enabled
5. Using .tf config from above, run terraform apply

Important Factoids

N/A

References

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[sidgod]

Closed by #12 .