Entry on getting an output from the GitLab Terrafrom remote state with

Accessing the GitLab remote Terraform state from Ansible

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:date: 2021-05-08

:summary: Accessing the GitLab remote Terraform state from Ansible.

Note to self: How to get the outputs from a GitLab remote Terrafrom state from

Ansible.

.. code:: yaml

    ---

    - name: Get Terraform outputs from the GitLab remote state

      hosts:

        - localhost

      connection: local

      become: false

      gather_facts: false

      vars:

        project_name: amilive

        tf_workspace: "{{ lookup('env', 'TF_WORKSPACE')|default('default', true) }}"

        gitlab_token: "{{ lookup('env', 'GITLAB_TOKEN') }}"

        gitlab_base_url: "{{ lookup('env', 'GITLAB_BASE_URL') }}"

      tasks:

        - name: Projects

          ansible.builtin.uri:

            headers:

              PRIVATE-TOKEN: "{{ gitlab_token }}"

            method: GET

            url: "{{ gitlab_base_url }}/projects"

          register: projects

        - name: Request

          ansible.builtin.uri:

            headers:

              PRIVATE-TOKEN: "{{ gitlab_token }}"

            method: GET

            return_content: true

            status_code: [200]

            url: "{{ gitlab_base_url }}/projects/{{ project_id }}/terraform/state/{{ tf_workspace }}"

          vars:

            project_id: "{{ (projects.json|selectattr('path', 'equalto', project_name))[0].id }}"

          register: tf_state

        - name: Env output

          debug:

            var: (tf_state.content|from_json)["outputs"]["env"]["value"]