tf-plan-pr-comment

Overview

tf-plan-pr-comment is a GitHub Action designed to simplify code reviews and enhance compliance. It automatically extracts, annotates, and comments essential Terraform plan output within GitHub Pull Requests.

Features

• Automated Extraction: Isolates crucial parts of the Terraform plan output.
• Annotation: Enhances readability by annotating the extracted output.
• Pull Request Comments: Posts the annotated output directly on the GitHub Pull Request.
• Conditional Comments: Supports comments based on the Terraform plan's exit code.

Prerequisites

• GitHub Actions enabled on your repository.
• A Terraform project to run this action on.
• An open GitHub Pull Request in the target repository.

Inputs

Name	Description	Default	Required
output_file	Path to the file with the Terraform plan output.	None	Yes

Usage

- name: Comment Terraform Plan on PR
  uses: blinqas/tf-plan-pr-comment@v1
  with:
    output_file: 'path/to/your/output/file'
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Example Workflow

Key Points:

• Use -no-color with terraform plan for parseable output.
• Utilize 2>&1 to redirect both stdout and stderr to the same file.
• Use tee to write the output to a file for the action.
• Assumes terraform plan runs from the repo root.

name: Terraform CI

on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - '**.tf'

jobs:
  terraform:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: Checkout code
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Terraform Plan
      run: terraform plan -no-color 2>&1 | tee ${{ github.workspace }}/plan_output.txt

    - name: Comment Terraform Plan on PR
      uses: blinqas/tf-plan-pr-comment@v1
      with:
        output_file: ${{ github.workspace }}/plan_output.txt
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Example Comment on the Pull Request

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

License

Licensed under MIT. See LICENSE.md for details.