Tasks

The /tasks endpoints modify the tasks that Consul-Terraform-Sync is responsible for running.

Update Task

This endpoint allows patch updates to specifically supported fields for existing tasks. Currently only supports updating a task’s enabled value.

Request Parameters

• run - (string) Values can be only be “inspect” and “now”.
  • “inspect”: Does not update the task but returns information on if/how resources would be changed for the proposed task update.
  • “now”: Updates the task accordingly and immediately runs the task, rather than allowing the task to run at the natural daemon cadence

Response Fields

• inspect - Information on how resources would be changed given a proposed task update, similar to inspect-mode. This is only returned when passed the run=inspect request parameter
  • changes_present - (bool) Whether or not changes were detected for running the proposed task update
  • plan - (string) The Terraform plan generated for the proposed task update . Note: a non-empty string does not necessarily indicate changes were detected.

Example: Disable a task

Request:

$ curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --request PATCH \
  --data '{"enabled":false}' \
  localhost:8558/v1/tasks/task_a

Response:

{}

Example: Inspect enabling a task

Request:

$ curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --request PATCH \
  --data '{"enabled":true}' \
  localhost:8558/v1/tasks/task_a?run=inspect

Response if no changes present:

{
  "changes_present": false,
  "plan": "No changes. Infrastructure is up-to-date. <truncated>"
}

Response if changes present:

{
  "changes_present": true,
  "plan": "<terraform plan truncated> Plan: 3 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy."
}