terragrunt run-all graph plan/apply

[Yethal]

Summary

It would be useful to have ability to plan multiple modules and both their dependencies and dependants. Currently it's possible to plan multiple modules and their dependencies via run-all plan/apply but planning a module and its dependants via graph plan/apply is only possible on per module basis

Motivation

At my company on every PR we detect which modules have changed and then run plan on those modules only via run-all plan with multiple --terragrunt-include-dir arguments added. This works fine for planning changes in modules and their dependencies but tells us nothing about changes in downstream modules. While it would be possible to instead run graph plan in each of those modules individually such approach is inefficient.
Let's assume a scenario in which a PR changes modules A and B and B is a dependency of A and has its own downstream dependencies.
If we run separate graph plan commands in parallel then graph for module A will include module B as well and its dependencies and plan for module B will include module B and it's dependencies once again. As a result such job cannot be parallelized due to state locking.
Running the plans in parallel but with max parallel set to one (to avoid issues with state locking) will cause the job to be very slow because the same modules will be planned multiple times.
Alternatively we could run plan for all modules in the repository instead of only the changed ones via regular run-all plan however in repositories with hundreds of small modules this would take ages.

Proposal

Introduce new command run-all graph plan/apply
This command would work the same as existing run-all commands but when used with terragrunt-include-dir it would not only add specified modules and their dependencies to the graph but also their dependants thus ensuring the plan shows full scope of the changes.

Technical Details

Basically, take the functionality already present in graph plan command and make it work with run-all --terragrunt-include-dir

Press Release

Terragrunt is now capable of planning and applying all nodes affected by particular change request.

Drawbacks

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Alternatives

Gather list of changed modules, for each modules run graph plan, wait a few hours and deduplicate the results

Migration Strategy

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Unresolved Questions

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References

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Proof of Concept Pull Request

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Support Level

• I have Terragrunt Enterprise Support
• I am a paying Gruntwork customer

Customer Name

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[yhakbar]

Please take a look at the RFC #3445. In that RFC, I'm proposing a redesign of the CLI that will make it so that run-all and graph will be replaced with --all and --graph flags on a new run command.

Initially, the objective would be to have them be mutually exclusive so that existing functionality is matched, but in the longer term, the behavior you're asking for might be addressed by that.

What do you think of that? If you're in favor of that, please share your feedback on the CLI redesign RFC, then consider updating this RFC to reflect that change in design.

[bakavets-ma]

+1 (terragrunt run-all graph plan/apply)