Environment variables

Infracost uses a number of environment variables to customize various aspects of its behavior; these can be particularly useful in CI/CD integrations.

INFRACOST_API_KEY#

Infracost API key, run infracost register to get one.

INFRACOST_LOG_LEVEL#

Can be set to info or warn in CI/CD systems to reduce noise, or debug to troubleshoot.

INFRACOST_SKIP_UPDATE_CHECK#

Set to true to skip the Infracost update check; can be useful in CI/CD systems. Be sure to upgrade regularly as we continually add new resources to Infracost.

TERRAFORM_BINARY#

Used to change the path to the terraform binary, e.g.:

TERRAFORM_BINARY=~/bin/terraform_0.13 infracost --tfdir /path/to/code
# or
TERRAFORM_BINARY=terragrunt infracost --tfdir=/path/to/code

CI/CD integrations#

If you're using a CI/CD integration, our Docker image (Dockerfile) has the latest stable versions of terraform and terragrunt; so you can set this environment variable to:

  • terraform (default, latest stable version of terraform)
  • terraform_0.14 (latest patch version of 0.14)
  • terraform_0.13 (latest patch version of 0.13)
  • terraform_0.12 (latest patch version of 0.12)
  • terragrunt (latest patch version of 0.27, if you need other versions of Terragrunt in the Docker image, please create an issue)

TERRAFORM_CLOUD_TOKEN#

For Terraform Cloud/Enterprise users, set this to a Team API Token or User API Token so Infracost can use it to access the plan.

TERRAFORM_CLOUD_HOST#

For Terraform Enterprise users, used to override the default app.terraform.io backend host.

Terraform environment variables#

Standard Terraform environment variables such as TF_WORKSPACE and TF_CLI_CONFIG_FILE can also be added if required, for example:

TF_WORKSPACE=dev infracost --tfdir /path/to/code
TF_CLI_CONFIG_FILE="$HOME/.terraformrc-custom" infracost --tfdir /path/to/code
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