using the infracost CLI is there a way to view the estimated

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using the infracost CLI is there a way to view the estimated cost using the `terraform tfstate` file instead of the plan basically if a user changes values in the params file and saves but doesn t deploy we don t want an updated cost based on the params we just want to know the estimated cost based on what s listed in the state file crossed fingers

crooked-daybreak-55253 · Answer

Hi you can pass a state JSON to the CLI So use the <https developer hashicorp com terraform cli commands show|terraform show> command with the ` json` flagto convert your tfstate to a state JSON then call `infracost breakdown path=tfstate json`

crooked-daybreak-55253 · Answer

Have you tried the HCL parsing though In general we don t recommend using plan json files anymore You can pass the terraform project directory as ` path` and we ll generate an estimate directly from the tf files i e `infracost breakdown path= my terraform project` It tends to be much faster than generating a plan json

faint-oyster-21329 · Answer

so what we re doing on our backend for our platform is storing params set by customers in the UI we don t want to run the estimator based on the params because customers can save params without deploying them

faint-oyster-21329 · Answer

to be as accurate as possible for the costs our customers may see on their bill we just want infracost to read the customer s statefile stored in our s3 bucket and generate the estimated cost from what s actually deployed

faint-oyster-21329 · Answer

< crooked daybreak 55253> I was able to get this working how can i convert the breakdown into a scrapable file like JSON or something

crooked-daybreak-55253 · Answer

add a ` format=json` flag to the breakdown command You can also set ` out file=infracost json` to put it in a file

white-airport-8778 · Answer

< faint oyster 21329> if you re building an integration with Infracost please follow