Groups Design Session

Actions.

One action that you specify in the command line. Apply - plan/apply.

Avoid duplication of init with plan/apply.

Validate (ci)

• Terraform validate (init)
• Terraform fmt
• Chekov
• Tfsec
• Detect-secrets
• Tflint
• Caflint

rover validate …

Deploy (cd)

• Plan
• Apply
• Test

Examples:

rover apply rover tflint

rover foo

.rover folder. groups.yml

Add default groups.yml to pkg/custom/source to copy over to .rover.

groups: validate:

• validate
• fmt -tflint
• caflint foo:
• fmt deploy:
• plan
• apply
• test

Action Items:

• Create yml files for all tools in pkg/custom/source.
• Create default groups.yml and add it to pkg/custom/source
• Document which variables are available for tool authors.
• Design groups.yml syntax.
• Integrate groups with command line.
• Add validation between group name and custom command name.
• Modify usage (--help) to show groups in a separate area as compared to top level build in actions.
• Order of actions in the group should be the order of execution.
• Support running init with no backend (for ci tools that need init)
• Refactor custom actions to be a single yaml file instead of multiple.

Rover plan should not auto-init, it will be expected that users of rover call rover init prior to either of those. With the exception of terraform destroy for removal of launchpad.

groups.yaml

groups:

  deploy:
    - plan
    - apply
    - test

  validate:
    - plan
    - apply
    - security
    - unit
    -int


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rover validate
rover deploy