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Terraform module that loads and processes an opinionated "stack" configuration from YAML sources using the terraform-provider-utils Terraform provider.

It supports deep-merged variables, settings, ENV variables, backend config, remote state, and Spacelift stacks config outputs for Terraform and helmfile components.

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Introduction

The module is composed of the following sub-modules:

vars - accepts stack configuration and returns deep-merged variables for a Terraform or helmfile component.
settings - accepts stack configuration and returns deep-merged settings for a Terraform or helmfile component.
env - accepts stack configuration and returns deep-merged ENV variables for a Terraform or helmfile component.
backend - accepts stack configuration and returns backend config for a Terraform component.
remote-state - accepts stack configuration and returns remote state outputs for a Terraform component. The module supports s3 and remote (Terraform Cloud) backends.
spacelift - accepts infrastructure stack configuration and transforms it into Spacelift stacks.

Usage

For a complete example, see examples/complete.

For automated tests of the complete example using bats and Terratest, see test.

For an example on how to configure remote state for Terraform components in YAML config files and then read the components outputs from the remote state, see examples/remote-state.

For an example on how to process vars, settings, env and backend configurations for all Terraform and helmfile components for a list of stacks, see examples/stacks.

[!IMPORTANT] In Cloud Posse's examples, we avoid pinning modules to specific versions to prevent discrepancies between the documentation and the latest released versions. However, for your own projects, we strongly advise pinning each module to the exact version you're using. This practice ensures the stability of your infrastructure. Additionally, we recommend implementing a systematic approach for updating versions to avoid unexpected changes.

Examples

Here's an example of a stack configuration file:

  import:
    - ue2-globals
  vars:
    stage: dev
  terraform:
    vars: {}
  helmfile:
    vars: {}
  components:
    terraform:
      vpc:
        backend:
          s3:
            workspace_key_prefix: "vpc"
        vars:
          cidr_block: "10.102.0.0/18"
      eks:
        backend:
          s3:
            workspace_key_prefix: "eks"
        vars: {}
    helmfile:
      nginx-ingress:
        vars:
          installed: true

The import section refers to other stack configurations that are automatically deep merged.

Complete example

This example loads the stack config my-stack (which in turn imports other YAML config dependencies) and returns variables and backend config for the Terraform component my-vpc from the stack my-stack.

  module "vars" {
    source = "cloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/vars"
    # version     = "x.x.x"

    stack_config_local_path = "./stacks"
    stack                   = "my-stack"
    component_type          = "terraform"
    component               = "my-vpc"

    context = module.this.context
  }

  module "backend" {
    source = "cloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/backend"
    # version     = "x.x.x"

    stack_config_local_path = "./stacks"
    stack                   = "my-stack"
    component_type          = "terraform"
    component               = "my-vpc"

    context = module.this.context
  }

  module "settings" {
    source = "cloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/settings"
    # version     = "x.x.x"

    stack_config_local_path = "./stacks"
    stack                   = "my-stack"
    component_type          = "terraform"
    component               = "my-vpc"

    context = module.this.context
  }

  module "env" {
    source = "cloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/env"
    # version     = "x.x.x"

    stack_config_local_path = "./stacks"
    stack                   = "my-stack"
    component_type          = "terraform"
    component               = "my-vpc"

    context = module.this.context
  }

The example returns the following deep-merged vars, settings, env, and backend configurations for the my-vpc Terraform component:

backend = {
  "acl" = "bucket-owner-full-control"
  "bucket" = "eg-ue2-root-tfstate"
  "dynamodb_table" = "eg-ue2-root-tfstate-lock"
  "encrypt" = true
  "key" = "terraform.tfstate"
  "region" = "us-east-2"
  "role_arn" = "arn:aws:iam::xxxxxxxxxxxx:role/eg-gbl-root-terraform"
  "workspace_key_prefix" = "vpc"
}

backend_type = "s3"
base_component = "vpc"

env = {
  "ENV_TEST_1" = "test1_override"
  "ENV_TEST_2" = "test2_override"
  "ENV_TEST_3" = "test3"
  "ENV_TEST_4" = "test4"
}

settings = {
  "spacelift" = {
    "autodeploy" = true
    "branch" = "test"
    "triggers" = [
      "1",
      "2",
    ]
    "workspace_enabled" = true
  }
  "version" = 1
}

vars = {
  "availability_zones" = [
    "us-east-2a",
    "us-east-2b",
    "us-east-2c",
  ]
  "cidr_block" = "10.132.0.0/18"
  "environment" = "ue2"
  "level" = 3
  "namespace" = "eg"
  "param" = "param4"
  "region" = "us-east-2"
  "stage" = "prod"
  "subnet_type_tag_key" = "example/subnet/type"
  "test_map" = {
    "a" = "a_override_2"
    "b" = "b_override"
    "c" = [
      1,
      2,
      3,
    ]
    "map2" = {
      "atr1" = 1
      "atr2" = 2
      "atr3" = [
        "3a",
        "3b",
        "3c",
      ]
    }
  }
  "var_1" = "1_override"
  "var_2" = "2_override"
  "var_3" = "3a"
}

See examples/complete for more details.

Remote state example

This example accepts a stack config my-stack (which in turn imports other YAML config dependencies) and returns remote state outputs from the s3 backend for my-vpc and eks Terraform components.

NOTE: The backend type (s3) and backend configuration for the components are defined in the stack YAML config files.

  module "remote_state_my_vpc" {
    source = "cloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/remote-state"
    # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
    # version     = "x.x.x"

    stack_config_local_path = "./stacks"
    stack                   = "my-stack"
    component               = "my-vpc"
  }

  module "remote_state_eks" {
    source = "cloudposse/stack-config/yaml//modules/remote-state"
    # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
    # version     = "x.x.x"

    stack_config_local_path = "./stacks"
    stack                   = "my-stack"
    component               = "eks"
  }

See examples/remote-state for more details.

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Makefile Targets

Available targets:

  help                                Help screen
  help/all                            Display help for all targets
  help/short                          This help short screen
  lint                                Lint terraform code

Requirements

Name	Version
<a name="requirement_terraform"></a> terraform	>= 0.14.0
<a name="requirement_external"></a> external	>= 2.0
<a name="requirement_local"></a> local	>= 1.3
<a name="requirement_utils"></a> utils	>= 1.7.1

Providers

Name	Version
<a name="provider_utils"></a> utils	>= 1.7.1

Modules

Name	Source	Version
<a name="module_this"></a> this	cloudposse/label/null	0.25.0

Resources

Name	Type
utils_stack_config_yaml.config	data source

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
<a name="input_additional_tag_map"></a> additional_tag_map	Additional key-value pairs to add to each map in `tags_as_list_of_maps`. Not added to `tags` or `id`.<br/>This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags<br/>and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration.	`map(string)`	`{}`	no
<a name="input_attributes"></a> attributes	ID element. Additional attributes (e.g. `workers` or `cluster`) to add to `id`,<br/>in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the<br/>end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the `delimiter`<br/>and treated as a single ID element.	`list(string)`	`[]`	no
<a name="input_component_deps_processing_enabled"></a> component_deps_processing_enabled	Boolean flag to enable/disable processing stack config dependencies for the components in the provided stack	`bool`	`false`	no
<a name="input_context"></a> context	Single object for setting entire context at once.<br/>See description of individual variables for details.<br/>Leave string and numeric variables as `null` to use default value.<br/>Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object,<br/>except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged.	`any`	<pre>{<br/> "additional_tag_map": {},<br/> "attributes": [],<br/> "delimiter": null,<br/> "descriptor_formats": {},<br/> "enabled": true,<br/> "environment": null,<br/> "id_length_limit": null,<br/> "label_key_case": null,<br/> "label_order": [],<br/> "label_value_case": null,<br/> "labels_as_tags": [<br/> "unset"<br/> ],<br/> "name": null,<br/> "namespace": null,<br/> "regex_replace_chars": null,<br/> "stage": null,<br/> "tags": {},<br/> "tenant": null<br/>}</pre>	no
<a name="input_delimiter"></a> delimiter	Delimiter to be used between ID elements.<br/>Defaults to `-` (hyphen). Set to `""` to use no delimiter at all.	`string`	`null`	no
<a name="input_descriptor_formats"></a> descriptor_formats	Describe additional descriptors to be output in the `descriptors` output map.<br/>Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form<br/>`{<br/> format = string<br/> labels = list(string)<br/>}`<br/>(Type is `any` so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.)<br/>`format` is a Terraform format string to be passed to the `format()` function.<br/>`labels` is a list of labels, in order, to pass to `format()` function.<br/>Label values will be normalized before being passed to `format()` so they will be<br/>identical to how they appear in `id`.<br/>Default is `{}` (`descriptors` output will be empty).	`any`	`{}`	no
<a name="input_enabled"></a> enabled	Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources	`bool`	`null`	no
<a name="input_environment"></a> environment	ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT'	`string`	`null`	no
<a name="input_id_length_limit"></a> id_length_limit	Limit `id` to this many characters (minimum 6).<br/>Set to `0` for unlimited length.<br/>Set to `null` for keep the existing setting, which defaults to `0`.<br/>Does not affect `id_full`.	`number`	`null`	no
<a name="input_label_key_case"></a> label_key_case	Controls the letter case of the `tags` keys (label names) for tags generated by this module.<br/>Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the `tags` input.<br/>Possible values: `lower`, `title`, `upper`.<br/>Default value: `title`.	`string`	`null`	no
<a name="input_label_order"></a> label_order	The order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the `id`.<br/>Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"].<br/>You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present.	`list(string)`	`null`	no
<a name="input_label_value_case"></a> label_value_case	Controls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in `id`,<br/>set as tag values, and output by this module individually.<br/>Does not affect values of tags passed in via the `tags` input.<br/>Possible values: `lower`, `title`, `upper` and `none` (no transformation).<br/>Set this to `title` and set `delimiter` to `""` to yield Pascal Case IDs.<br/>Default value: `lower`.	`string`	`null`	no
<a name="input_labels_as_tags"></a> labels_as_tags	Set of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the `tags` output.<br/>Default is to include all labels.<br/>Tags with empty values will not be included in the `tags` output.<br/>Set to `[]` to suppress all generated tags.<br/>Notes:<br/> The value of the `name` tag, if included, will be the `id`, not the `name`.<br/> Unlike other `null-label` inputs, the initial setting of `labels_as_tags` cannot be<br/> changed in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored.	`set(string)`	<pre>[<br/> "default"<br/>]</pre>	no
<a name="input_name"></a> name	ID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'.<br/>This is the only ID element not also included as a `tag`.<br/>The "name" tag is set to the full `id` string. There is no tag with the value of the `name` input.	`string`	`null`	no
<a name="input_namespace"></a> namespace	ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique	`string`	`null`	no
<a name="input_regex_replace_chars"></a> regex_replace_chars	Terraform regular expression (regex) string.<br/>Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements.<br/>If not set, `"/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/"` is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits.	`string`	`null`	no
<a name="input_stack_config_local_path"></a> stack_config_local_path	Path to local stack configs	`string`	n/a	yes
<a name="input_stack_deps_processing_enabled"></a> stack_deps_processing_enabled	Boolean flag to enable/disable processing all stack dependencies in the provided stack	`bool`	`false`	no
<a name="input_stacks"></a> stacks	A list of infrastructure stack names	`list(string)`	n/a	yes
<a name="input_stage"></a> stage	ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release'	`string`	`null`	no
<a name="input_tags"></a> tags	Additional tags (e.g. `{'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}`).<br/>Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module.	`map(string)`	`{}`	no
<a name="input_tenant"></a> tenant	ID element _(Rarely used, not included by default)_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for	`string`	`null`	no

Outputs

Name	Description
<a name="output_config"></a> config	Stack configurations

Related Projects

Check out these related projects.

terraform-provider-utils - The Cloud Posse Terraform Provider for various utilities.
terraform-yaml-config - Terraform module to convert local and remote YAML configuration templates into Terraform lists and maps.
terraform-datadog-monitor - Terraform module to configure and provision Datadog monitors from a YAML configuration, complete with automated tests.
terraform-opsgenie-incident-management - Terraform module to provision Opsgenie resources from YAML configurations using the Opsgenie provider, complete with automated tests.
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References

For additional context, refer to some of these links.

Terraform Standard Module Structure - HashiCorp's standard module structure is a file and directory layout we recommend for reusable modules distributed in separate repositories.
Terraform Module Requirements - HashiCorp's guidance on all the requirements for publishing a module. Meeting the requirements for publishing a module is extremely easy.
Terraform Version Pinning - The required_version setting can be used to constrain which versions of the Terraform CLI can be used with your configuration.
Terraform templatefile Function - templatefile reads the file at the given path and renders its content as a template using a supplied set of template variables.

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