terraform ecs debugging

Author: CLJ2006

ansible/roles/deploy-ecs-proxies/tasks/main.yml

@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
         src: '{{ item.src }}'
         dest: "{{ out_dir }}/{{ item.path }}"
         mode: '{{ item.mode }}'
+      vars: 
+        use_ecs_tag: "{{ lookup('env', 'TF_VAR_use_ecs_tag') | default('false') | bool }}"
       with_filetree: "{{ '../templates' }}"
       when: item.state == 'file'
 

ansible/roles/deploy-ecs-proxies/templates/terraform/locals.tf

@@ -46,17 +46,25 @@ locals {
 ecs_service = [
 {% for container in ecs_service %}
 
+  # DEBUG: print the boolean value Jinja sees
+  {% if use_ecs_tag %}
+    {% set _ = print("DEBUG: use_ecs_tag = TRUE") %}
+  {% else %}
+    {% set _ = print("DEBUG: use_ecs_tag = FALSE") %}
+  {% endif %}
+
   {% set image_tag = (
         '${local.account_id}.dkr.ecr.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/'
         + service_id + '_' + container.name
         + (
             ":ecs-" + build_label
-            if var.use_ecs_tag and container.name == "canary-api"
+            if use_ecs_tag and container.name == "canary-api"
             else ":" + build_label
           )
     )
   %}
 
+
   {{
       (
         container