Terraform Version

we use anything from 1.5.x to the new 1.12.x

Use Cases

our directories are :
/terraform/environments/... for the the tfvars/tfinit
/terraform/environments/prod/prod.tfvars prod.tfinit
/terraform/environments/stg/stg.tfvars prod.tfinit
...
/terraform/modules/... for the modules
/terraform/main/... for the main terraform files (tf files....)

instead of doing in /terrform/main

terraform init -backend-config=../environments/prod/prod.tfinit
terraform plan -var-file=../environments/prod/prod.tfvar

I would like to do something like in /terraform/environment/prod

terraform init -backend-config=prod.tfinit -root=../../main
terraform plan -var-file=prod.tfvars -root=../../main

This way the .terraform directory will be build in each env directory and not in the main terraform directory
It allow us also to use direnv tool, to have .envrc file in each env directory that preset the AWS_PROFILE, TFENV_TERRAFORM_VERSION and other specific setings.

Attempted Solutions

The chdir option today doesn't allow that, it just do a full change directory at the beginning of terraform call, not the same effect.

Proposal

Add a -root=.... option to specify where the main terraform directory with all the tf files is

References

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