Can cdktf commands be executed inside python code?

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cdktf & Language Versions

0.9.4

Affected Resource(s)

All azure resources in stack

Debug Output

I am using cdktf for provisioning my resources using Python and Terraform. I want to automate this entire process and hence, asking for the “cdktf deploy” to be part of the python code, as below:

from constructs import Construct
from cdktf import App, TerraformStack
from imports.azurerm import AzurermProvider, ResourceGroup
import subprocess


class MyStack(TerraformStack):
    def __init__(self, scope: Construct, ns: str):
        super().__init__(scope, ns)

        # define resources here
        loca="West Europe"
        rg_name="example-rg1"
        tag = {
            "ENV": "Dev",
            "PROJECT": "AZ_TF"
        }
        AzurermProvider(self, "Azurerm", \
                        features={}
                        )

        example_rg = ResourceGroup(self, 'example-rg1', \
                                   name=rg_name,
                                   location = loca,
                                   tags = tag
                                   )

app = App()
name = "cdktf5"
MyStack(app, name)
app.synth()
subprocess.run(["cdktf", "deploy"])

Expected Behavior

The deploy command should run as it does from CLI

Actual Behavior

However, this does not work as expected, with the following output:

⠼ synthesizing...

⠙ synthesizing...

⠇ synthesizing...

⠸ synthesizing...

⠇ synthesizing...

⠦ synthesizing...

Needless to say, the resources are not created.

[Subhashini2610]

@rahulgoud19 I have already implemented such a thing, except it is a primitive way to define this. For example, if I want to get the stack outputs and store it to a variable, it would not be so easy. But definitely, this helps!

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