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2021-10-08
2021-10-29

I need some help here. I’ve copied the tutorial and started tinkering with changes to make a PoC. I’m running into a wall running atmos terraform plan tfstate-backend --stack=uw2-root
and can’t figure out what knob I turned to end up with stack name pattern must be provided in 'stacks.name_pattern' config or 'ATMOS_STACKS_NAME_PATTERN' ENV variable
Directory structure looks correct (at least I think)
├── components
│ └── terraform
│ └── tfstate-backend
│ ├── README.md
│ ├── context.tf
│ ├── default.auto.tfvars
│ ├── main.tf
│ ├── outputs.tf
│ ├── providers.tf
│ ├── variables.tf
│ └── versions.tf
└── stacks
├── catalog
│ ├── globals.yaml
│ └── uw2-globals.yaml
├── uw2-dev.yaml
├── uw2-prod.yaml
└── uw2-root.yaml

you need to have the CLI config file https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos/blob/master/examples/complete/atmos.yaml
Universal Tool for DevOps and Cloud Automation (works with terraform, helm, helmfile, istioctl, etc) - atmos/atmos.yaml at master · cloudposse/atmos

somewhere in these locations
# CLI config is loaded from the following locations (from lowest to highest priority):
# system dir (`/usr/local/etc/atmos` on Linux, `%LOCALAPPDATA%/atmos` on Windows)
# home dir (~/.atmos)
# current directory
# ENV vars
# Command-line arguments

this is a working example https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos/tree/master/examples/complete that shows how to use atmos, plus all the stacks
and components
folders
Universal Tool for DevOps and Cloud Automation (works with terraform, helm, helmfile, istioctl, etc) - atmos/examples/complete at master · cloudposse/atmos

and this is a list of commands we usually use to test atmos
atmos version
atmos terraform plan test/test-component-override -s tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos terraform plan test/test-component-override -s=tenant1-ue2-dev
atmos terraform plan test/test-component-override -s tenant1/ue2/dev --stacks-dir=./examples/complete/stacks
atmos terraform validate test/test-component-override -s tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos terraform output test/test-component-override -s tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos terraform graph test/test-component-override -s tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos terraform show test/test-component-override -s tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos helmfile diff infra/infra-server -s tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos terraform workspace test/test-component-override --stack=tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos --config-dir ./examples/complete/stacks --terraform-dir ./examples/complete/components/terraform terraform workspace test/test-component-override --stack=tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos --config-dir=./examples/complete/stacks --terraform-dir=./examples/complete/components/terraform terraform workspace test/test-component-override --stack tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos terraform workspace test/test-component-override --stack=tenant1/ue2/dev --config-dir ./examples/complete/stacks --terraform-dir ./examples/complete/components/terraform
atmos terraform varfile test/test-component-override -s tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos terraform varfile test/test-component-override -s tenant1/ue2/dev -f ./varfile.json
atmos --config-dir ./examples/complete/stacks --terraform-dir ./examples/complete/components/terraform terraform write varfile test/test-component-override --stack=tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos terraform write varfile test/test-component-override --stack=tenant1/ue2/dev --config-dir ./examples/complete/stacks --terraform-dir ./examples/complete/components/terraform
atmos --config-dir ./examples/complete/stacks terraform write varfile test/test-component-override --stack=tenant1/ue2/dev --terraform-dir ./examples/complete/components/terraform
atmos describe component test/test-component-override -s tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos describe component test/test-component-override -s tenant1-ue2-dev
atmos describe component infra/infra-server -s tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos describe component infra/infra-server -s tenant1-ue2-dev
atmos terraform generate backend test/test-component-override -s tenant1-ue2-dev
atmos terraform plan top-level-component1 -s tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos terraform apply top-level-component1 -s tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos terraform deploy top-level-component1 -s tenant1/ue2/dev
ATMOS_COMPONENTS_TERRAFORM_DEPLOY_RUN_INIT=false atmos terraform deploy top-level-component1 -s tenant1/ue2/dev
ATMOS_LOGS_VERBOSE=true atmos terraform deploy top-level-component1 -s tenant1/ue2/dev
atmos terraform deploy top-level-component1 -s tenant1/ue2/dev --deploy-run-init=true
ATMOS_COMPONENTS_TERRAFORM_DEPLOY_RUN_INIT=false atmos terraform deploy top-level-component1 -s tenant1/ue2/dev --deploy-run-init=true

@Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse) Thanks!


note when you set the ENV var ATMOS_LOGS_VERBOSE=true, the CLI will print a lof more info - how it looks for the config, what config is found and processed, more info for the executing commands, etc.

Good to know

Running into the following despite the backend plan and apply successfully completing.
⨠ atmos terraform backend generate component tfstate-backend --stack uw2-root
Invalid or missing configuration for the component 'generate' in the stack 'uw2-root'

if you are using atmos version > 1.0
, the command is
atmos terraform generate backend <component> -s <stack>

also, the latest release will generate backend on the fly https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos/pull/66
what Improvements and new features why For terraform commands, put the additional arguments and flags at the end of the command. This allows to use, for example, -var=service_1_name=service-1-ov…