non-recursive is not an option

[anavrotski]

• terrascan version:
  latest
• Operating System:
  mac os / linux

Description

All these issues:

• how to suppress these error reported by Terrascan #1270
• Skip No Terraform Config Files Error #1323
• Allow excluding some paths from scanning #1321

are about the same problem - if you want to use terrascan, you should change your project structure. If some folders in your project are not containing terraform files, you'll get an error. That prevents me from using this tool in the CI pipeline and even in local checks.

Is there any plans to solve this issue ?

[jesusplanas]

Hi, we are facing the same problem. If we use the --non-recursive parameter we always get an error like:

| Running Terrascan in directory: ./workflow_tests/terraform/basic 
| 2024-06-27T08:09:53.282Z	error	cli/run.go:141	scan run failed{error 26 0  1 error occurred:
| 	* failed to build terraform allResourcesConfig
| 
| }

If we do not add the --non-recursive option also get an error like:

Running Terrascan in directory: ./workflow_tests/terraform/basic 


Scan Errors -

	IaC Type            :	terraform
	Directory           :	/home/runner/work/github-workflows/github-workflows/workflow_tests/terraform/basic
	Error Message       :	failed to build unified config. errors:
<nil>: Invalid module config directory; Module directory '/home/runner/work/github-workflows/github-workflows/workflow_tests' has no terraform config files for module naming

	
	-----------------------------------------------------------------------
	


Scan Summary -

	File/Folder         :	/home/runner/work/github-workflows/github-workflows/workflow_tests/terraform/basic
	IaC Type            :	terraform
	Scanned At          :	2024-06-27 08:14:29.561496867 +0000 UTC
	Policies Validated  :	174
	Violated Policies   :	0
	Low                 :	0
	Medium              :	0
	High                :	0
	

Error: Process completed with exit code 4.

This also prevents us to use the GH action or even the package installed in our local envs.

Terrascan version: v1.19.1

[EliiseS]

Any updates on this?

[turboBasic]

it looks like the project is not maintained any longer, there are lots of unanswered issues and open PRs (