Terraform modules

Infracost will include any modules that are included by terraform plan depending on the Terraform parameters you pass via --terraform-plan-flags. The infracost breakdown output will show the total cost based on the sum of the costs of the modules.

As an example, say you have a module that manages an EC2 instance and takes the instance type as an input. If you include the module like this:

module "dev" {
  count = var.enable_dev ? 1: 0
  source   = "./ec2_module"
  instance_type = "m5.2xlarge"
}

module "prod" {
  count = var.enable_prod ? 1 : 0
  source   = "./ec2_module"
  instance_type = "m5.4xlarge"
}

And then pass --terraform-plan-flags='-var=enable_prod=true' to infracost breakdown, the output will show:

  Name                                         Quantity  Unit                 Monthly Cost

  module.prod[0].aws_instance.web_app
  ├─ Linux/UNIX usage (on-demand, m5.4xlarge)       730  hours                     $648.24
  └─ root_block_device
     └─ General Purpose SSD storage (gp2)            50  GB-months                   $5.80

  PROJECT TOTAL                                                                    $654.04

If you pass --terraform-plan-flags='-var=enable_prod=true -var=enable_dev=true' to infracost breakdown it will show the costs for both:

  Name                                         Quantity  Unit                 Monthly Cost

  module.dev[0].aws_instance.web_app
  ├─ Linux/UNIX usage (on-demand, m5.2xlarge)       730  hours                     $324.12
  └─ root_block_device
     └─ General Purpose SSD storage (gp2)            50  GB-months                   $5.80

  module.prod[0].aws_instance.web_app
  ├─ Linux/UNIX usage (on-demand, m5.4xlarge)       730  hours                     $648.24
  └─ root_block_device
     └─ General Purpose SSD storage (gp2)            50  GB-months                   $5.80

  PROJECT TOTAL                                                                    $983.96

To show a cost breakdown for each module individually, one workaround at the moment is to dynamically generate a config file using this bash script for an example of how to do this.