Feature request: SAM CLI -Include-dir (Terraform) (Build)

[SuperP4rks]

Hi Team,

I think this has been discussed in other threads, but it would be really helpful if we can help with more structured repositories in a terraform work flow like the below:

/project
  /infrastructure
    envrionment/
        dev/
            dev.tfvars
        test/
            test.tfvars
    main.tf
    providers.tf
  /src
    ... (lambda code) ...
  /tests
    ... (lambda tests) ...

I prepose a couple of solutions:

• 1. add a cli command to include-dir e.g. --include-dir "../src/*"
  • this could then be added to the samconfig.toml

version = 0.1
[default]
[default.build.parameters]
hook_name = "terraform"
beta_features = true
include-dir = ../src/*

• 2. Pull through the code declared in the sam_metadata resource `

resource "null_resource" "sam_metadata_..." {
  triggers = {
    original_source_code = "../src
  }
}

I have tried playing with the --base-dir and --manifest flags however when the file is located above the root it cannot identify the ../src folder with the lambda code.

It would be amazing to see if we can help with more flexible terraform builds to suit the structured folders, instead of putting the python structure under the terraform folder.

[GantZA]

I would like this feature too, currently trying to help setup SAM and Terraform at a client where lambda function projects are structure similar to the above. local debugging and testing isn't great at the moment but SAM working with Terraform would solve this massively

[mildaniel]

Thanks for the feature request. We understand this to be a limitation currently impacting customers and are looking at a few different ways to address this issue!

[SuperP4rks]

Hi @mildaniel ,

Do we have an ETA or a view on when this is in the roadmap.

Also do we need to update the tags to add area/build, area/terraform?

[moelasmar]

Hi @jordancparker,
Thanks for raising this request. This request is a duplicate of this issue. I am going to close your request, and you can follow up on the other issue to get updates on this feature.

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