Apply support for custom commands/workflows

[rkubik-hostersi]

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Hi!
I would like to use atlantis for helmfile, which works pretty similar with helmfile diff and helmfile apply. We have a lot of helm charts installed via helmfile so I wanted to utilize this plan/apply feature of atlantis.

Here is an example workflow:

workflows:
  helmfile-dev:
    plan:
      steps:
        - run: helmfile diff
    apply:
      steps:
        - run: helmfile apply

The plan is working and show the helmfile diff content. Unfortunately, when I type atlantis apply, it shows Ran Apply for 0 projects: only. I suspect that this is because atlantis can't see any terraform output. Is there a workaround for this to utilize atlantis with helmfile?

Thanks in advance!

[jamengual]

what is the exit code of helmfile apply? enable debug and see what does it say in the logs.

[rkubik-hostersi]

Helmfile is not being triggered at all. There is no output even with debug mode in atlantis. Atlantis comment on GH has only Ran Apply for 0 projects: and no output.

In the atlantis logs, I see that for plan it triggers helmfile:

Sep 08 06:48:05 ip-10-202-50-244 atlantis[8550]: {"level":"debug","ts":"2022-09-08T06:48:05.262Z","caller":"models/shell_command_runner.go:93","msg":"starting \"helmfile diff\" in \"/opt/atlantis/.atlantis/repos/xxx/xxx/39/default/helmfile/dev\"","json":{"repo":"xxx/xxx-iac","pull":"39"}}
[...]
Sep 08 06:48:41 ip-10-202-50-244 atlantis[8550]: {"level":"info","ts":"2022-09-08T06:48:41.088Z","caller":"models/shell_command_runner.go:156","msg":"successfully ran \"helmfile diff\" in \"/opt/atlantis/.atlantis/repos/xxx/xxx-iac/39/default/helmfile/dev\"","json":{"repo":"xxx/xxx-iac","pull":"39"}}

When I type atlantis apply, the logs does not show any similar commands:

Sep 08 06:49:15 ip-10-202-50-244 atlantis[8550]: {"level":"info","ts":"2022-09-08T06:49:15.986Z","caller":"events/events_controller.go:533","msg":"parsed comment as command=\"apply\" verbose=false dir=\"\" workspace=\"\" project=\"\" flags=\"\"","json":{"gh-request-id":"X-Github-Delivery=xxx"}}
Sep 08 06:49:15 ip-10-202-50-244 atlantis[8550]: {"level":"debug","ts":"2022-09-08T06:49:15.986Z","caller":"events/events_controller.go:563","msg":"executing command","json":{"gh-request-id":"X-Github-Delivery=XXX"}}

[rkubik-hostersi]

Any chance to debug it?

[jamengual]

if you change helmfile to and echo "executing helmfile" does it work?

your custom image path needs to be able to find helmfile, that is another thing to fix

[rkubik-hostersi]

It does not work as well with echo.

[jamengual]

what version of Atlantis? I'm doing this right now and it works fine.

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[rkubik-hostersi]

atlantis 0.19.8
custom command works well for atlantis plan, but not for atlantis apply.

Remember, that in the workflow, there is actually no terraform, so it does not produce any terraform plan.

[michelmzs]

@rkubik-hostersi try adding a dummy $PLANFILE in the plan step.

workflows:
  helmfile-dev:
    plan:
      steps:
        - run: helmfile diff
        - run: touch "$PLANFILE"
    apply:
      steps:
        - run: helmfile apply

[rkubik-hostersi]

It's working this way! thank you