We have repos with many projects that use terragrunt-atlantis-config to generate the atlantis.yml. It works properly to plan only the projects that have changed (or depend on projects that have changed). Sometimes we want to apply "everything under environments/dev". I know that

-d

doesn't support regexps, but

-p

does. But when I run

atlantis apply -p environments_dev.*

it will try to apply every project with that name, not just those that autoplan decided should be planned. Is there a way to say "apply all projects/directories matching a given regexp, but only the ones that autoplan selected"?

so basically the apply command is trying to apply all the existing plans?

so like.

atlantis apply

— applies every plan made by autoplan.

atlantis apply -p one-project

— applies that project

atlantis apply -p foo.*

applies every project with foo.* but i want "apply every plan that i actually made in the plan step (ie with autoplan, or the previous plan command, or whatever), filtered via foo.*"

becaause of autoplan

well yes but autoplan is good 🙂

lol

isn't the whole workflow of atlantis "make a plan, then apply it"? how does

atlantis apply

without args work — is it recalculating the autoplan projects from scratch, or going based on what plans it already created?

plans already created

right. so it's not unreasonable to want to have a command that says "apply a subset of plans already created, of size midway between 1 and all", no?

well that might not be a good thing sometimes

i mean atlantis lets you run a single project no?

ahhh yes true,

the use case is like, i change a resource that terragrunt is installing in 3 different environments. i want to do dev first, see how it goes, then staging, then prod. easy enough, just use

atlantis apply -d/-p

on the single environment

to create project names in the autogenerated atlantis.yaml file

they do if you pass the --generate-project-name flag so now they do

mmm