Update module command

[johntdyer]

Hey guys,

So atlantis plan appears to be doing a plan w/ an old version of one of our modules. I am wondering if there is any way to force atlantis to run terraform get -update=true before the plan ? Perhaps i am missing something fundamental ?

[lkysow]

@johntdyer thanks for the issue. Yes I see that we're doing a vanilla terraform get instead of terraform get -update=true. @anubhavmishra any reason you see to not do the update true?

[anubhavmishra]

yea, it was done so we don't force update modules without people knowing. We currently only run terraform init with the new versions of terraform that in turn downloads all the projects dependencies which includes the modules. I think there is an option in init to download the latest version of modules. I would like to think about this one. Currently @johntdyer, you can use your project config (atlantis.yaml) file and set the extra_arguments for init and pass -upgrade=true. Thanks for bringing this up!

[lkysow]

Here's what your config file would look like in your repo

# atlantis.yaml
extra_arguments:
- command_name: init
  arguments:
  - "-update=true"

Does this work for you @johntdyer ?

[lkysow]

FYI, we like to use ref={tag/commit} in our module source rather than pinning to master and having it auto-update (assuming you're using a git source). See https://www.terraform.io/docs/modules/sources.html#ref

ex.

module "consul" {
  source = "git::https://hashicorp.com/consul.git?ref=v0.1"
}

In this case, Atlantis will always get the right version of your modules.

[atlantisbot]

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