Hi infracost wizards , Is there a way to disable the automatic creation of .infracost folder by infracost VScode pluggin everytime a new workspace ops a tf directory?

Hey @best-action-5428! that folder is used to cache the downloaded modules otherwise they’ll have to be downloaded each time you save a file and Infracost needs to run… Add it to your .gitignore so you can ignore it

Just FYI If you don't want to commit it to the repo, you can use a global gitignore: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/ignoring-files#configuring-ignored-files-for-all-repositories-on-your-computer

Thanks Ali and Vadim . I guessed it had to do with some cache function and thanks for the gitignore tip, but the thing is, I have tf directories with providers that aren't supported at all by infracost like OCI . So It doesn't make sense still generate that folder. is there a way to specifically tell the pluggin to ignore a workspace or folder? just looking to find an elegant solution.

I think config file is what you're looking for: you can ignore certain projects/folders and estimate the rest: https://www.infracost.io/docs/features/config_file/

does this apply to the Vscode plugin ? because I'm not navigating through the terminal so far in that directory.

@best-action-5428 yep, the vscode extension uses the infracost.yml or infracost.yml.tmpl at the root of your vscode workspace

right and this is located inside the .infracost folder ? because as soon as I add a folder to the workspace the tf folder is added .

oh no, the infracost.yml file needs to be added to the workspace root (or repo root if you open that folder in VSCode) so you can define your projects: https://github.com/infracost/vscode-infracost/#4-create-a-infracost-config-file

root of the directory where the workspace was created ? could it work independently from any workspace ? if so can the below work ? I have a direcory with many subfolder with oci tf projects : /

version: 0.1
exclude_paths:
  - C:\DATA\Cloud\oci
#  - "test-*"

@best-action-5428 root of the workspace being opened in VSCode, take a look at the “Only matching certain project” example in https://www.infracost.io/docs/features/config_file/#examples as you can specify the paths that should be matched

thanks Ali , we'll check it out . I just don't get if what you mean by workspace root location (is it for each workspace or 1 single location for all )

Sorry I should have clarified @best-action-5428! When you open a workspace in vscode, whatever folder is the root folder needs to have the infracost.yml config file. It might be easier to do screenshare, DM me if you want 🙂

hehe , I thought the root was a single location in the computer that manages the whole VSCode settings for ifracost . I will just delete the whole infra folder I think since I usually have one config per workspace (I was hopping I could do black list a root path at a VSCODE level). Thank you Ali