CLI: HCL synth generates incorrect remote configuration with workspaces

[Hi-Fi]

Expected Behavior

Terraform can be initialized with CDKTF synthesized stack in HCL format. Remote configuration would look like:

terraform {
  backend "remote" {
    organization = "test-organization"
    workspaces {
      name = "test-stack"
    }
    hostname = "test.artifactory.local"
  }
}

Actual Behavior

CDKTF synthesized incorrect remove configuration

terraform {
  backend "remote" {
    organization = "test-organization"
    workspaces = {
      name = "test-stack"
    }
    hostname = "test.artifactory.local"
  }
}

When manually removing that = after workspaces, init works fine.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Initialize empty CDKTF project
2. Add following remote backend to it
3. Synthesize stack to HCL (cdktf synth --hcl)
4. Go to output directory of stack and run terraform init

Versions

language: typescript
cdktf-cli: 0.20.8
node: v20.13.1
cdktf: 0.20.8
constructs: 10.3.0
jsii: null
terraform: 1.9.4
arch: arm64
os: darwin 23.6.0

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Possible Solutions

Probably some specific handling needed for that part. Didn't had any other places with similar issues. Datasource to remote works different way and it requires that = sign.

Workarounds

Don't use HCL (not working for me as HCL is needed for Sonarqube analysis)

Anything Else?

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References

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[mutahhir]

Another alternative is to use the cloud block. (Docs), which is recommended by terraform anyway over the remote backend. From my understanding, that doesn't have this problem.

The remote backend is a bug nonetheless. We will be fixing it in a future release.

[Hi-Fi]

We use Artifactory as state backend, I understood that Cloud backend is reserved for HCP Terraform (ex-Terraform Cloud) (and it's Enterprise version) and remote is for that