Looking at the terraform module, and that it uses infer dependencies, compared to the docker plugin, where I’ve used the inject dependencies.. I was still a bit confused about the difference between the two, but after reading up on the doc string of the request types of each, I get the feeling that I ought to use the infer dependency variant also in the docker plugin, as it is analysing the Dockerfile source .. should I change this?

The “inject” and “infer” dependencies rules are invoked from the same rule and the results merged. The difference is what triggers each kind of rule: a

dependencies

field or a

sources

field.

Not sure, it was that the infer was described to pick up its dependencies by analysing sources, which I feel is what we kind of do in the Docker case too, when we analyse the Dockerfile that is pulled in via a Sources field.. so that feels like the more correct approach.

then “infer” is probably the right choice