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Terraform Configuration Drift Detection #743

Terraform Configuration Drift Detection

Terraform Configuration Drift Detection #743

Workflow file for this run

name: 'Terraform Configuration Drift Detection'
on:
workflow_dispatch:
schedule:
- cron: '41 3 * * *' # runs nightly at 3:41 am
#Special permissions required for OIDC authentication
permissions:
id-token: write
contents: read
issues: write
#These environment variables are used by the terraform azure provider to setup OIDD authenticate.
env:
ARM_CLIENT_ID: "${{ secrets.AZURE_CLIENT_ID }}"
ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID: "${{ secrets.AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}"
ARM_TENANT_ID: "${{ secrets.AZURE_TENANT_ID }}"
jobs:
terraform-plan:
name: 'Terraform Plan'
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
#this is needed since we are running terraform with read-only permissions
ARM_SKIP_PROVIDER_REGISTRATION: true
outputs:
tfplanExitCode: ${{ steps.tf-plan.outputs.exitcode }}
steps:
# Checkout the repository to the GitHub Actions runner
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
# Install the latest version of the Terraform CLI
- name: Setup Terraform
uses: hashicorp/setup-terraform@v3
with:
terraform_wrapper: false
# Initialize a new or existing Terraform working directory by creating initial files, loading any remote state, downloading modules, etc.
- name: Terraform Init
run: terraform init
# Generates an execution plan for Terraform
# An exit code of 0 indicated no changes, 1 a terraform failure, 2 there are pending changes.
- name: Terraform Plan
id: tf-plan
run: |
export exitcode=0
terraform plan -detailed-exitcode -no-color -out tfplan || export exitcode=$?
echo "exitcode=$exitcode" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
if [ $exitcode -eq 1 ]; then
echo Terraform Plan Failed!
exit 1
else
exit 0
fi
# Save plan to artifacts
- name: Publish Terraform Plan
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: tfplan
path: tfplan
# Create string output of Terraform Plan
- name: Create String Output
id: tf-plan-string
run: |
TERRAFORM_PLAN=$(terraform show -no-color tfplan)
delimiter="$(openssl rand -hex 8)"
echo "summary<<${delimiter}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
echo "## Terraform Plan Output" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
echo "<details><summary>Click to expand</summary>" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
echo "" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
echo '```terraform' >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
echo "$TERRAFORM_PLAN" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
echo '```' >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
echo "</details>" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
echo "${delimiter}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
# Publish Terraform Plan as task summary
- name: Publish Terraform Plan to Task Summary
env:
SUMMARY: ${{ steps.tf-plan-string.outputs.summary }}
run: |
echo "$SUMMARY" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
# If changes are detected, create a new issue
- name: Publish Drift Report
if: steps.tf-plan.outputs.exitcode == 2
uses: actions/github-script@v7
env:
SUMMARY: "${{ steps.tf-plan-string.outputs.summary }}"
with:
github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
script: |
const body = `${process.env.SUMMARY}`;
const title = 'Terraform Configuration Drift Detected';
const creator = 'github-actions[bot]'
// Look to see if there is an existing drift issue
const issues = await github.rest.issues.listForRepo({
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
state: 'open',
creator: creator,
title: title
})
if( issues.data.length > 0 ) {
// We assume there shouldn't be more than 1 open issue, since we update any issue we find
const issue = issues.data[0]
if ( issue.body == body ) {
console.log('Drift Detected: Found matching issue with duplicate content')
} else {
console.log('Drift Detected: Found matching issue, updating body')
github.rest.issues.update({
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
issue_number: issue.number,
body: body
})
}
} else {
console.log('Drift Detected: Creating new issue')
github.rest.issues.create({
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
title: title,
body: body
})
}
# If changes aren't detected, close any open drift issues
- name: Publish Drift Report
if: steps.tf-plan.outputs.exitcode == 0
uses: actions/github-script@v7
with:
github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
script: |
const title = 'Terraform Configuration Drift Detected';
const creator = 'github-actions[bot]'
// Look to see if there is an existing drift issue
const issues = await github.rest.issues.listForRepo({
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
state: 'open',
creator: creator,
title: title
})
if( issues.data.length > 0 ) {
const issue = issues.data[0]
github.rest.issues.update({
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
issue_number: issue.number,
state: 'closed'
})
}
# Mark the workflow as failed if drift detected
- name: Error on Failure
if: steps.tf-plan.outputs.exitcode == 2
run: exit 1