error running atlantis: exit status 1: running "sh -c terraform plan -input=false -refresh -no-color -out...."

[st33v]

I'm trying to run atlantis for the first time and all I can get it to produce is 'exit 1' when running a plan.

Is there a way to get more log information than this?

version: 2
projects:
- name: infrastructure
  dir: .
  autoplan:
    when_modified: ["*.tf", "./modules/**.tf"]
    enabled: true
  apply_requirements: [approved]
  workflow: myworkflow
workflows:
  myworkflow:
    plan:
      steps:
      - run: eval $(./scripts/aws_secrets.sh)
      - init
      - plan
    apply:
      steps:
      - run: eval $(./scripts/aws_secrets.sh)
      - apply

that's my config. I 'eval' a script that fetches secrets and exports them as variables into the shell:

➜  infrastructure git:(test_atlantis) ./scripts/aws_secrets.sh
export RAILS_MASTER_KEY=foo
export DATADOG_API_KEY=bar
export DATADOG_EXTERNAL_ID=foobar
export DATADOG_APP_KEY=flarg
export GITHUB_TOKEN=foobarre
export TF_VAR_atlantis_github_user=st33v
export TF_VAR_atlantis_github_user_token=foo

the 'init' and the 'eval' with seem to work and then I get 'exit 1' when running a plan.

[lkysow]

1. @st33v right now each step runs in its own shell so what you're doing won't work because the env vars don't get transferred in between each step.

2. For now, you would have to write custom steps that source and run the init/plan:

   - run: "eval $(./scripts/aws_secrets.sh) && terraform init"
   

   I haven't tested ☝️so you might need to play around with quotes.

3. I'm not sure why plan is just returning exit 1. It should at least give you an error message. Is there no output whatsoever?

4. I'm going to create another ticket (Implement BASH_ENV functionality to share env vars between steps. #370) for implementing a BASH_ENV functionality in Atlantis, where you can write export statements to $BASH_ENV and those will be sourced on each step. That's how circleci handles this: https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/env-vars/#using-bash_env-to-set-environment-variables

[st33v]

got it. Thanks. That's similar to the solution that I ended up with minus the quotes. I didn't need them at all.

Yeah, I was surprised by the lack of output too. The environment vars that I'm reading contain creds for providers so I could see where terraform would totally puke on not having them.

Thanks for opening the feature request. I think that would work for me nicely.

[lkysow]

Okay cool. I'll close this issue then since the proper fix is being tracked in #370.