-target apply no longer works

[imsky]

We're running Atlantis 0.4.12 and we're no longer able to run targeted atlantis apply.

Given this plan:

An execution plan has been generated and is shown below.
Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:
~ update in-place

Terraform will perform the following actions:

~ aws_s3_bucket.foo
      versioning.0.enabled: "false" => "true"

~ aws_s3_bucket.bar
      versioning.0.enabled: "false" => "true"
Plan: 0 to add, 2 to change, 0 to destroy.

and this comment:

atlantis apply -p project -- -target=aws_s3_bucket.foo

this is the output:

aws_s3_bucket.foo Modifying... (ID: foo)
  versioning.0.enabled: "false" => "true"
aws_s3_bucket.bar: Modifying... (ID: bar)
  versioning.0.enabled: "false" => "true"
aws_s3_bucket.foo: Modifications complete after 2s (ID: foo)
aws_s3_bucket.bar: Modifications complete after 2s (ID: bar)

Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 2 changed, 0 destroyed.

Are we doing something wrong? This syntax used to work recently.

[lkysow]

Hi, with Atlantis -target only works when specified on the atlantis plan command. This is because we generate a planfile with -out and then run terraform apply {planfile}. Terraform ignores the -target flag in this case.

We should really just give you an error if you're using -target with apply.

I don't think this was working previously because I don't think this ever worked with Terraform. Maybe you were using it with atlantis plan before?

[imsky]

i see @lkysow that makes sense. i think you're right - we were using plan before. thanks for the explanation