#atlantis - September 2019

Have you used this much @Igor?

I'm curious to know how it plays out

No, not at all, I am also curious about it

Sticking to Atlantis for the time being

OK! I'll set one up next week and give it a crack

yeah - same here.

Mostly because we don’t use workspaces

And I’m afraid Hashicorp is pushing for workspaces

Yeah - I feel the same, I too am not using workspaces, I'm using the terragrunt/atlantis method

I'm doing a talk on Atlantis here in NZ and Hashicorp where pushing their enterprise tools our way to present 😛

IIRC The guys that managed Atlantis were hired by Hashicorp, so I am sure there is a lot of influence that they'll have on their Terraform Cloud product

But Atlantis the project is also pushing workspaces :-)

Atlantis config has built-in support for custom commands though

Whereas workspaces appear mandatory in the Terraform Cloud world (on first sight)

They also demo having environment-specific git branches, which doesn't make any sense to me

(unless it's a short-lived environment)

Hi Guys. I'm getting atlantis to execute helmfile workflow. I created a docker image based on the official atlantis' image with all of the necessary goodies that are needed and bizarre things happen:

If I docker run -it my_atlantis /bin/bash and run helm help it lists all the commands including the plugins.

However, if I run the same command as part of a custom atlantis' workflow, none of the plugins are there.

Any ideas?

@Jakub Korzeniowski are you running the same image for the atlantis workflow?

doesn't the atlantis image have a "atlantis" user? If so, you would need to install the plugins for the atlantis user

you can create a directory for helm and set the HELM_HOME env variable to that

then install the helm plugins

don't forget to set the permissions on the dir

this is an example of our image with atlantis installed (geodesic is the base image, which has terraform, helm, helfile and other stuff installed)
https://github.com/cloudposse/testing.cloudposse.co/blob/master/Dockerfile

this is how the atlantis server gets configured in the base geodesic image
https://github.com/cloudposse/geodesic/blob/master/rootfs/etc/init.d/atlantis.sh

atlantis worflows
https://github.com/cloudposse/testing.cloudposse.co/blob/master/atlantis.yaml

curious how well it works to use atlantis with helm/helmfile

works well for us

this is an example of atlantis workflow for helmfiles:

helmfile:
    plan:
      steps:
        - run: "chamber exec kops -- kops export kubecfg"
        - run: 'chamber exec kops -- direnv exec "$DIR" helmfile diff --suppress-secrets --args="--allow-unreleased --context 5 --no-color"
    apply:
      steps:
        - run: "chamber exec kops -- kops export kubecfg"
        - run: 'test -x "$DIR"/namespace-annotations.sh && chamber exec kops -- direnv exec "$DIR" "$DIR"/namespace-annotations.sh || echo "No script found to annotate namespaces"'
        - run: 'chamber exec kops -- direnv exec "$DIR" helmfile apply --suppress-secrets'

and this is atlantis project config to deploy helmfiles

 - name: "helmfiles"
    workflow: "helmfile"
    dir: "conf/helmfiles"
    workspace: "default"
    autoplan:
      when_modified:
        - "*.yaml"
        - "*.yaml.gotmpl"
        - "*.envrc"
        - ".envrc"
      enabled: true
    apply_requirements:
      - "approved"

that's awesome

I've been looking at ArgoCD for doing the k8s CD, any thoughts on that project?

i have yet to try it out , just reading up on it

did not use it, but looks very cool 🙂

did you look at GitHub Actions? https://deliverybot.dev/2019/09/15/deploying-to-kubernetes-with-helm-and-github-actions/

we use Azure DevOps which is what GithHub Actions is built on, but I'm trying to move away from having our CI systems from talking to our K8s clusters directly

which is why I like Atlantis and ArgoCD

I can run those within our network