terraform-aws-cli

Run the AWS CLI, with the ability to run under an assumed role, to access resources and properties missing from the Terraform AWS Provider.

Requirements

This module requires a couple of additional resources to operate successfully.

1. Amazon Web Service Command Line Interface (awscli)
   This is available in several forms here.

2. JSON processor (jq)
   This is available here.

Examples

1. Get the desired capacity of an autoscaling group.

If you are using a blue/green style deployment, you would want to create the same number of EC2 instances as you are replacing.

module "current_desired_capacity" {
  source            = "digitickets/cli/aws"
  role_session_name = "GettingDesiredCapacityFor${var.environment}"
  aws_cli_commands  = ["autoscaling", "describe-auto-scaling-groups"]
  aws_cli_query     = "AutoScalingGroups[?Tags[?Key==`Name`]|[?Value==`digitickets-${var.environment}-asg-app`]]|[0].DesiredCapacity"
}

You can now set the desired capacity of an aws_autoscaling_group:

  desired_capacity = module.current_desired_capacity.result

2. Assuming a role.

Extending the first example above, assuming a role is as simple as adding an assume_role_arn to the module:

module "current_desired_capacity" {
  source            = "digitickets/cli/aws"
  assume_role_arn   = "arn:aws:iam::${data.aws_caller_identity.current.account_id}:role/OrganizationAccountAccessRole"
  role_session_name = "GettingDesiredCapacityFor${var.environment}"
  aws_cli_commands  = ["autoscaling", "describe-auto-scaling-groups"]
  aws_cli_query     = "AutoScalingGroups[?Tags[?Key==`Name`]|[?Value==`digitickets-${var.environment}-asg-app`]]|[0].DesiredCapacity"
}

Requirements

Name	Version
terraform	~> 0.13.0
external	~> 1.2.0
local	~> 1.4.0
random	~> 2.3.0

Providers

Name	Version
external	~> 1.2.0
local	~> 1.4.0
random	~> 2.3.0

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
assume_role_arn	The ARN of the role being assumed (optional)	string	""	no
aws_cli_commands	The AWS CLI command and subcommands	list(string)	n/a	yes
aws_cli_query	The --query value	string	""	no
role_session_name	The role session name (optional)	string	"terraform-aws-cli"	no

Outputs

Name	Description
result	The output of the AWS CLI command

Docker

To help with getting this running in a pipeline that uses Docker, the image digiticketsgroup/terraforming has Terraform, AWSCLI, and jq all ready to go.

If you want to build or adapt your own image, then the Dockerfile below is how that image has been built.

# Based upon https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/2.0.10/docker/Dockerfile
FROM amazonlinux:2 as installer
ARG TERRAFORM_VERSION
RUN yum update -y \
  && yum install -y unzip \
  && curl https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip -o awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip \
  && unzip awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip \
  # The --bin-dir is specified so that we can copy the
  # entire bin directory from the installer stage into
  # into /usr/local/bin of the final stage without
  # accidentally copying over any other executables that
  # may be present in /usr/local/bin of the installer stage.
  && ./aws/install --bin-dir /aws-cli-bin/ \
  && curl "https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/${TERRAFORM_VERSION}/terraform_${TERRAFORM_VERSION}_linux_amd64.zip" -o terraform.zip \
  && unzip terraform.zip

FROM amazonlinux:2
COPY --from=installer /usr/local/aws-cli/ /usr/local/aws-cli/
COPY --from=installer /aws-cli-bin/ /usr/local/bin/
COPY --from=installer terraform /usr/bin/
RUN yum update -y \
  && yum install -y less groff jq \
  && yum clean all

ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/sh"]