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. Configuration values are chosen in this order:

  1. CLI flags (run infracost --help to see them)
  2. Environment variables
  3. Configuration file

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. We recommend watching the Infracost repo for releases by going to the repo page, clicking on the Watch button, selecting Custom, then Releases and clicking on Apply. Be sure to upgrade regularly as we continually add new resources to Infracost.

INFRACOST_TERRAFORM_BINARY#

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

INFRACOST_TERRAFORM_BINARY=~/bin/terraform_0.13 infracost --terraform-dir /path/to/code
# or
INFRACOST_TERRAFORM_BINARY=terragrunt infracost --terraform-dir=/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)

Infracost works with Terraform v0.12 and above.

INFRACOST_TERRAFORM_WORKSPACE#

Used to set the Terraform workspace (this sets the TF_WORKSPACE internally):

INFRACOST_TERRAFORM_WORKSPACE=dev infracost --terraform-dir /path/to/code

Only set this for multi-workspace deployments, otherwise it might result in the Terraform error "workspaces not supported". If you see this error, try running unset INFRACOST_TERRAFORM_WORKSPACE and unset TF_WORKSPACE.

INFRACOST_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.

INFRACOST_TERRAFORM_CLOUD_HOST#

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

INFRACOST_SELF_HOSTED_TELEMETRY#

Set to false to opt-out of telemetry when using a self-hosted Cloud Pricing API.

Terraform environment variables#

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

TF_CLI_CONFIG_FILE="$HOME/.terraformrc-custom" infracost --terraform-dir /path/to/code
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