Documentation for user facing input - tectonic_proxy_exclusive_units

Documentation/variables/config.md

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ This document gives an overview of variables used in all platforms of the Tecton
 | tectonic_nfs_config_file | (optional) the path to an NFS configuration file to be placed in /etc/conf.d/nfs file on the CL nodes. | string | `` |
 | tectonic_no_proxy | "(optional) This variable should contain a comma-separated list of domain extensions proxy should not be used for. For instance, if the value of no_proxy is ‘.mit.edu’, proxy will not be used to retrieve documents from MIT." | list | `<list>` |
 | tectonic_ntp_servers | (optional) If left blank, the default Container Linux NTP servers will be used. A list of NTP servers to be used for time synchronization on the cluster nodes. | list | `<list>` |
+| tectonic_proxy_exclusive_units | (optional) When set to true, it restricts the application of proxy settings to processes started through systemd units. Global proxy settings will not be affected in this case. When set to false, the proxy settings will apply globally, including to all processes lauched by users. | string | `false` |
 | tectonic_pull_secret_path | The path the pull secret file in JSON format. This is known to be a "Docker pull secret" as produced by the docker login [1] command. A sample JSON content is shown in [2]. You can download the pull secret from your Account overview page at [3].<br><br>[1] https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/login/<br><br>[2] https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/registry-authentication.html#manual-registry-auth-setup<br><br>[3] https://account.coreos.com/overview<br><br>Note: This field MUST be set manually prior to creating the cluster unless `tectonic_vanilla_k8s` is set to `true`. | string | `` |
 | tectonic_self_hosted_etcd | (internal) [ALPHA] If set to one of the following values, self-hosted etcd is deployed:<br><br>- "enabled": Deploys a self-hosted etcd cluster.<br><br>- "pv_backup": Deploys a self-hosted etcd cluster including backups to Persistence Volumes. `tectonic_etcd_backup_size` and `tectonic_etcd_backup_storage_class` must be configured when using this setting. | string | `` |
 | tectonic_service_cidr | (optional) This declares the IP range to assign Kubernetes service cluster IPs in CIDR notation. The maximum size of this IP range is /12 | string | `10.3.0.0/16` |

config.tf

@@ -595,4 +595,10 @@ locals {
 
 variable "tectonic_proxy_exclusive_units" {
   default = false
+
+  description = <<EOF
+(optional) When set to true, it restricts the application of proxy settings to processes started through systemd units.
+Global proxy settings will not be affected in this case.
+When set to false, the proxy settings will apply globally, including to all processes lauched by users.
+EOF
 }