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

Ansible.

content/gitlab-tf-state-ansible.rst

+Accessing the GitLab remote Terraform state from Ansible
+========================================================
+
+: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"]