How to run tflint without a .tflint file?

[mschultz-aofl]

Hi, previously we were using tflint-bundle and I didn't realize it was deprecated until now (it honestly just kept working until I upgraded terraform and started using provider functions). I'm trying to move to tflint in our CI pipelines that are used everywhere - previously by using the bundle, we were able to not have to add a file in each repo which was really nice. What's the way to achieve that same behavior? I'm currently running

$ tflint --init --enable-plugin=aws
All plugins are already installed
$ tflint --disable-rule=terraform_required_providers --disable-rule=terraform_required_version --call-module-type=all --enable-plugin=aws
Failed to initialize plugins; Plugin "aws" not found in /root/.tflint.d/plugins

which doesn't seem to be correct.

[wata727]

Add the plugins you want to use to .tflint.hcl and install them with tflint --init.
See also https://github.com/terraform-linters/tflint/blob/v0.60.0/docs/user-guide/plugins.md

[wata727]

If you don't want to add .tflint.hcl, you can do the same thing by placing the binary in ~/.tflint.d/plugins like so:
https://github.com/terraform-linters/tflint-bundle/blob/a83669335051f1eb2284e2bb1969e63dd2a99a72/Dockerfile#L16-L26