IaC describe

Support API docs Product updates Sign up for free

Search…

IaC describe

Usage
Note: This feature is available in Snyk CLI version v1.876.0 or greater.
snyk iac describe [<OPTIONS>]
Description
The snyk iac describe command detects infrastructure drift and unmanaged resources. It compares resources in your Terraform state file against actual resources in your cloud provider and outputs a report.
Resources in your Terraform state files are managed resources.
Changes to managed resources not reflected in the Terraform state file are drifts.
Resources that exist but are not in your Terraform state file are unmanaged resources.
For detailed information and examples, see IaC describe command examples​
For a list of related commands see the snyk iac help; iac --help
Exit codes
Possible exit codes and their meaning:
0: success, no drift found
1: drifts or unmanaged resources found
2: failure
Configure the Snyk CLI
You can use environment variables and set variables for connecting with the Snyk API; see Configure the Snyk CLI​
Configure the Terraform provider
You can set environment variables to configure the Terraform provider used by the describe command; see Configure cloud providers​
Debug
Use the -d option to output the debug logs.
Required options
Note: To use the describe command, you must use one of these options:
--only-unmanaged
Report resources not found in any Terraform states.
--only-managed or --drift
Scan managed resources found in Terraform states for changes.
--all
Scan both managed and unmanaged resources.
Optional arguments
--org=<ORG_ID>
Specify the <ORG_ID> to run Snyk commands tied to a specific organization. Overrides the default <ORG_ID> that is the current preferred organization in your Account settings​
For more information see the article How to select the organization to use in the CLI​
--from=<STATE>[,<STATE>...]
Specify multiple Terraform state files to be read. Glob patterns are supported.
For more information including a list of supported IaC sources and how to use them, see IAC Sources usage​
--to=<PROVIDER+TYPE>
Specify the cloud provider to scan (default: AWS with Terraform).
Supported providers:
github+tf (GitHub with Terraform)
aws+tf (Amazon Web Services with Terraform)
gcp+tf (Google Cloud Platform with Terraform)
azure+tf (Azure with Terraform)
--tf-provider-version
Specify a Terraform provider version to use. If none is specified, default versions are used as follows:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
--tf-lockfile
Read the Terraform lock file (.terraform.lock.hcl) from a custom path (default: current directory).
If parsing the lockfile fails, errors are logged and scan continues.
Note: When you are using both the --tf-lockfile and --tf-provider-version options together, --tf-provider-version takes precedence.
--fetch-tfstate-headers
Use a specific HTTP header or headers for the HTTP backend when fetching Terraform state.
--tfc-token
Specify an API token to authenticate to the Terraform Cloud or Enterprise API.
--tfc-endpoint
Read the current state for a given workspace from Terraform Enterprise by passing the tfc-endpoint value that is specific to your org's Terraform Enterprise installation.
--config-dir
Change the directory path used for iac describe configuration (default $HOME). This can be useful, for example, if you want to invoke this command in an AWS Lambda function where you can only use the /tmp folder.
Options for including and excluding resources
--service=<SERVICE>[,<SERVICE>...]
Specify the services whose resources are inspected for drift or unmanaged resources.
This option cannot be used with a .snyk drift ignore rule; the content in .snyk will be ignored.
Supported services: aws_s3, aws_ec2, aws_lambda, aws_rds, aws_route53, aws_iam , aws_vpc, aws_api_gateway, aws_apigatewayv2, aws_sqs, aws_sns, aws_ecr, aws_cloudfront, aws_kms, aws_dynamodb, azure_base, azure_compute, azure_storage, azure_network, azure_container, azure_database, azure_loadbalancer, azure_private_dns, google_cloud_platform, google_cloud_storage, google_compute_engine, google_cloud_dns, google_cloud_bigtable, google_cloud_bigquery, google_cloud_functions, google_cloud_sql, google_cloud_run
--filter
Use filter rules.
Filter rules allow you to build a JMESPath expression to include or exclude a set of resources from the report.
To filter on resource attributes, deep mode must be enabled. Deep mode is enabled by default for --all and --only-managed. To enable deep mode while using --only-unmanaged, use the --deep option.
For more information see Filter results​
--deep
Enable deep mode. Deep mode enables you to use the --filter option to include or exclude resources in the report based on their attributes.
Deep mode is enabled by default for --all and --only-managed. Use --deep if you want to filter on attributes while using --only-unmanaged.
For more information see Filter results​
--strict
Enable strict mode.
The iac describe command ignores service-linked resources by default (like service-linked AWS IAM roles, their policies and policy attachments). To include those resources in the report you can enable strict mode. Note that this can create noise when used with an AWS account.
Options for policies
--ignore-policy
Ignore all set policies, the current policy in the .snyk file, org level ignores, and the project policy in the Snyk Web UI.
--policy-path=<PATH_TO_POLICY_FILE>
Manually pass a path to a .snyk policy file.
Options for output
--quiet
Output only the scan result to stdout.
--json
Output the report as JSON to stdout.
--html
Output the report as html to stdout.
--html-file-output=<OUTPUT_FILE_PATH>
Output the report as html into a file.
Examples for snyk iac describe command
For more examples, see IaC describe command examples​
Detect drift and unmanaged resources on AWS with a single local Terraform state
1
$ snyk iac describe --all --from="tfstate://terraform.tfstate"
Copied!
Specify AWS credentials
1
$ AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXX AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXX snyk iac describe --all
Copied!
Use an AWS named profile
1
$ AWS_PROFILE=profile_name snyk iac describe --all
Copied!
Use a single Terraform state stored on an S3 backend
1
$ snyk iac describe --from="tfstate+s3://my-bucket/path/to/state.tfstate"
Copied!
Aggregate multiple Terraform states
1
$ snyk iac describe --all --from="tfstate://terraform_S3.tfstate,tfstate://terraform_VPC.tfstate"
Copied!
Aggregate many Terraform states, using glob pattern
1
$ snyk iac describe --all --from="tfstate://path/to/**/*.tfstate"
Copied!