Is there a way to have breakdown output be shown and also sa

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Is there a way to have breakdown output be shown and also saved to an output file I want it to display the output in the build log and also output to JSON to upload to Cloud Currently running breakdown command twice which probably isn t ideal laughing

white-airport-8778 · Answer

Hey Ryan yep here s what you want ``` on PR branch infracost breakdown path format json out file infracost base json on main branch infracost diff path compare to infracost base json format json out file infracost json The infracost json is the key file you want Log the breakdown format infracost output path infracost json format table Upload to infracost cloud infracost upload path infracost json```

white-airport-8778 · Answer

if you re already using `infracost comment` and have the Org Settings gt Cost Monitoring Dashboard ticked on you don t need to manually run `upload` as the comment command does that when the dashboard is enabled

rhythmic-camera-22129 · Answer

Got it so run breakdown to generate the JSON file then use output to show it Makes sense thanks

white-airport-8778 · Answer

yep and `diff` to compare the baseline with the PR branch The GitLab CI example shows how we use them together to also do a diff <https gitlab com infracost infracost gitlab ci> this is parsing the HCL code directly so no need for tf init plan etc let me know if you want to run infracost with a TF plan JSON and I ll give you slightly different steps

rhythmic-camera-22129 · Answer

I m currently passing the tfplan output file into the breakdown command using path

rhythmic-camera-22129 · Answer

infracost breakdown path $ namespace $ project $ environment tfplan format json out file infracost json

white-airport-8778 · Answer

in that case I d recommend something <https gitlab com infracost infracost gitlab ci tree master examples plan json gitlab terraform|like this> where you generate the TF plan JSON using `terraform show json` then you run ```infracost diff path tf plan json format json out file infracost json The infracost json is the key file you want Log the breakdown format infracost output path infracost json format table Log the diff format infracost output path infracost json format diff Post an MR comment infracost comment gitlab path=infracost json Upload to infracost cloud infracost upload path infracost json```

rhythmic-camera-22129 · Answer

I m actually using Terraform JSON configuration here instead of raw HCL

rhythmic-camera-22129 · Answer

The TF JSON gets generated by automation and then gets excuted

rhythmic-camera-22129 · Answer

If that changes anything

white-airport-8778 · Answer

yep notice the `infracost diff` command is reading the Terraform plan JSON in my second example above

white-airport-8778 · Answer

Basically `infracost breakdown` is less useful in CI pipelines when you already have a TF plan JSON file since `infracost diff` can read that TF plan JSON file directly and use it to get the baseline from the plan JSON so no need to run breakdown at all

white-airport-8778 · Answer

One note about Infracost Cloud if you notice that the dashboard isn t showing the MR cost estimate it s probably because the CLI isn t able to detect metadata such as the MR title author from the env so you can set <https www infracost io docs features environment variables environment variables to override metadata|these env vars> just before you run `infracost diff` and it will use that metadata If you `cat infracost json` you should see the metadata from the env too