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John
John

Reputation: 73

The -var and -var-file options cannot be used when applying a saved plan file

I am using Gitlab terraform & the yaml file is as below for deploy stage,

build:
  extends: .terraform:build
  script:
    - cd "${TF_ROOT}"
    - gitlab-terraform plan --var-file=local.tfvars --var-file=common.tfvars
    - gitlab-terraform plan-json --var-file=local.tfvars --var-file=common.tfvars

deploy:
  extends: .terraform:deploy
  script:
    - cd "${TF_ROOT}"
    - gitlab-terraform apply --var-file=local.tfvars --var-file=common.tfvars
  environment:
    name: $TF_STATE_NAME

First time it deployed perfectly, However my Gitlab log shows the following error now for the second time,

│ Error: Can't set variables when applying a saved plan

The -var and -var-file options cannot be used when applying a saved plan

file, because a saved plan includes the variable values that were set when

it was created.

ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

I am looking through the internet but no help till now.

Can someone please suggest me the terraform command I should use to avoid this error ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2704

Answers (2)

penny
penny

Reputation: 457

Setting the TF_CLI_ARGS variable in your CI environment (i.e. your .gitlab-ci.yml file), will make terraform commands run in that environment with those args included.

So for example, setting the below variables in your pipeline file..

variables: 
  TF_CLI_ARGS: "-var-file=myvars.tfvars"
  TF_CLI_ARGS_plan: "-var-file=plan.tfvars"

..will make sure that all terraform commands are executed with -var-file=myvars.tfvars appended, and the terraform plan command will run with -var-file=myvars.tfvars -var-file=plan.tfvars appended.

As the gitlab-terraform tool is just a wrapper around existing terraform commands, setting this variable should work with that lib.

Upvotes: 0

edo
edo

Reputation: 1879

I had the same issue as OP and I'm just posting their solution from a comment they made.

Remove any -var-file arguments after gitlab-terraform apply to fix the error. Here's an example of a working job:

deploy:
  extends: .terraform:deploy
  dependencies:
    - build
  script:
    - gitlab-terraform apply
  environment:
    name: $TF_STATE_NAME
    action: start

PS The whole script section can be left out in the example above since it the same as in the base job.

Upvotes: 0

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