Coder.com•2y ago

TF_LOG verbose Terraform output?

How do I get Coder to show verbose Terraform logs? I'm trying to start a workspace but getting one of the Terraform AWS provider's less helpful error messages where it doesn't tell you what IAM action it doesn't have permission to complete:

$ coder start noah -y -v
✔ Queued [410ms]
✔ Setting up [57ms]
⧗  Starting workspace 
  Terraform 1.1.9
  coder_agent.dev: Refreshing state... [id=2eb6446d-0ea6-41f9-97cb-b00927229958]
  coder_agent.dev: Refresh complete [id=2eb6446d-0ea6-41f9-97cb-b00927229958]
  aws_instance.dev: Refreshing state... [id=i-005de03cc94c5859e]
  Error: reading EC2 Instance (i-005de03cc94c5859e): UnauthorizedOperation: You are not authorized to perform this operation.
        status code: 403, request id: 4c69c774-0b4e-40e4-858c-3d0b03c58b7b                                                         
  
✔ Starting workspace [6819ms]
✘ Cleaning Up [115ms]
terraform apply: exit status 1     
Run 'coder start --help' for usage.

$ coder start noah -y -v
✔ Queued [410ms]
✔ Setting up [57ms]
⧗  Starting workspace 
  Terraform 1.1.9
  coder_agent.dev: Refreshing state... [id=2eb6446d-0ea6-41f9-97cb-b00927229958]
  coder_agent.dev: Refresh complete [id=2eb6446d-0ea6-41f9-97cb-b00927229958]
  aws_instance.dev: Refreshing state... [id=i-005de03cc94c5859e]
  Error: reading EC2 Instance (i-005de03cc94c5859e): UnauthorizedOperation: You are not authorized to perform this operation.
        status code: 403, request id: 4c69c774-0b4e-40e4-858c-3d0b03c58b7b                                                         
  
✔ Starting workspace [6819ms]
✘ Cleaning Up [115ms]
terraform apply: exit status 1     
Run 'coder start --help' for usage.

When doing normal Terraform development and I run into this I get Terraform's verbose logs and trace the request id in the output to the API request, where I can then see the IAM action. I do this by setting the TF_LOG=1 env var in my shell. How might I do this in Coder?

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Turtle Kayak•2y ago

Okay turns out you can just set TF_LOG=1 in the Coder server's environment and it will enable verbose Terraform output

Codercord•2y ago

Marked the thread as resolved.

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TF_LOG verbose Terraform output?