What does path in the workflow refer to

[msuzoagu]

This is probably a silly question but what does the path input in the snippet refer to?

Inputs

• path

  Path to the terraform configuration

  • Type: string
  • Optional
  • Default: The action workspace

I think it means the path to the main.tf file but I am not sure.

Also does default: The action workspace refer to the default workspace the terraform runs in (when you don't create/select a non-default workspace)?

[dflook]

While a GitHub Actions job is running it gets its own directory on disk to use, called it's workspace.
path is the relative path to the directory containing your terraform files, from the workspace.

You would almost always use the checkout action to clone your repo into the workspace as the first step of your job, so you can think of path as the path to your terraform directory inside your repo. The default being the root of your repo.

Confusingly, Terraform has its own idea of a workspace, which you set with the workspace input.