[question] How best to support a subfolder of templates?

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Overview of the Issue

I have a big repo with lots of terraform folders (multiple states). I also use terraform templates. For readability I like to put my templates in a subfolder so the structure looks like this:

• stateA

  • someConfig.tf
  • someOtherConfig.tf
  • templates
    • templateA.html

• stateB

  • anotherConfig.tf
  • moreConfig.tf
  • templates
    • templateB.SQL

When a change is made to templateA.html I want Atlantis to run plan for stateA. How is this possible?

Looking at this question: #1085
Is this still the case?

"If you have an atlantis.yaml file you can specify each directory that should be tracked. You can then not set the root directory."

Having to specify every folder would be super cumbersome for me because I have lots. If thats the case I'd rather throw everything in the same folder, but then of course it's messy.

Is there currently a feature to support subfolders like this? What I would want is to be able to specify a list of "subfolder" strings and have atlantis stop recursing if it hits a folder named "templates" and treat that subfolder as part of the state of its parent.

[alexoliveira88]

It doesn't have a Feature that supports subfolder. Using pre-workflow-hooks you can create a script that generates atlantis.yaml automatically.

- name : stateA
  dir: dir-stateA
  autoplan:
    when_modified: ["*.tf", "templates"]
    enabled: true

- name : stateB
  dir: dir-stateB
  autoplan:
    when_modified: ["*.tf", "templates"]
    enabled: true