Pre Workflow Hooks

Pre workflow hooks can be defined to run scripts before default or custom workflows are executed. Pre workflow hooks differ from custom workflows in several ways.

1. Pre workflow hooks do not require the repository configuration to be present. This can be utilized to dynamically generate repo configs.
2. Pre workflow hooks are run outside of Atlantis commands. Which means they do not surface their output back to the PR as a comment.

Usage

Pre workflow hooks can only be specified in the Server-Side Repo Config under the repos key.

Note

By default, pre-workflow-hooks do not prevent Atlantis from executing its workflows(plan, apply) even if a run command exits with an error. This behavior can be changed by setting the fail-on-pre-workflow-hook-error flag in the Atlantis server configuration.

Atlantis Command Targetting

By default, the workflow hook will run when any command is processed by Atlantis. This can be modified by specifying the commands key in the workflow hook containing a comma delimited list of Atlantis commands that the hook should be run for. Detail of the Atlantis commands can be found in Using Atlantis.

Example

repos:
    - id: /.*/
      pre_workflow_hooks:
        - run: ./plan-hook.sh
          description: Plan Hook
          commands: plan
        - run: ./plan-apply-hook.sh
          description: Plan & Apply Hook
          commands: plan, apply

Use Cases

Dynamic Repo Config Generation

To generate the repo atlantis.yaml before Atlantis can parse it, add a run command to pre_workflow_hooks. Your Repo config will be generated right before Atlantis parses it.

repos:
    - id: /.*/
      pre_workflow_hooks:
        - run: ./repo-config-generator.sh
          description: Generating configs

Customizing the Shell

By default, the command will be run using the 'sh' shell with an argument of '-c'. This can be customized using the shell and shellArgs keys.

Example:

repos:
    - id: /.*/
      pre_workflow_hooks:
        - run: |
            echo "generating atlantis.yaml"
            terragrunt-atlantis-config generate --output atlantis.yaml --autoplan --parallel
          description: Generating atlantis.yaml
          shell: bash
          shellArgs: -cv

Reference

Custom run Command

This is very similar to the custom workflow run command.

- run: custom-command

Key	Type	Default	Required	Description
run	string	none	no	Run a custom command
description	string	none	no	Pre hook description
shell	string	'sh'	no	The shell to use for running the command
shellArgs	string	'-c'	no	The shell arguments to use for running the command

Notes

• run commands are executed with the following environment variables:
  • BASE_REPO_NAME - Name of the repository that the pull request will be merged into, ex. atlantis.
  • BASE_REPO_OWNER - Owner of the repository that the pull request will be merged into, ex. runatlantis.
  • HEAD_REPO_NAME - Name of the repository that is getting merged into the base repository, ex. atlantis.
  • HEAD_REPO_OWNER - Owner of the repository that is getting merged into the base repository, ex. acme-corp.
  • HEAD_BRANCH_NAME - Name of the head branch of the pull request (the branch that is getting merged into the base)
  • HEAD_COMMIT - The sha256 that points to the head of the branch that is being pull requested into the base. If the pull request is from Bitbucket Cloud the string will only be 12 characters long because Bitbucket Cloud truncates its commit IDs.
  • BASE_BRANCH_NAME - Name of the base branch of the pull request (the branch that the pull request is getting merged into)
  • PULL_NUM - Pull request number or ID, ex. 2.
  • PULL_URL - Pull request URL, ex. https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis/pull/2.
  • PULL_AUTHOR - Username of the pull request author, ex. acme-user.
  • DIR - The absolute path to the root of the cloned repository.
  • USER_NAME - Username of the VCS user running command, ex. acme-user. During an autoplan, the user will be the Atlantis API user, ex. atlantis.
  • COMMENT_ARGS - Any additional flags passed in the comment on the pull request. Flags are separated by commas and every character is escaped, ex. atlantis plan -- arg1 arg2 will result in COMMENT_ARGS=\a\r\g\1,\a\r\g\2.
  • COMMAND_NAME - The name of the command that is being executed, i.e. plan, apply etc.
  • OUTPUT_STATUS_FILE - An output file to customize the success or failure status. ex. echo 'failure' > $OUTPUT_STATUS_FILE.