r/aws_batch_job_definition: Suppress unnecessary environment variable diffs

[ma2gedev]

Summary

This PR changes ordering AWS Batch job definition's environment variables when terraform-provider-aws reads job definition through AWS API and serializes to state. As the result, terraform's plan shows environment variables list without noisy diff.

Background

AWS Batch job definition's environment variables are showed as diff even if there is no change about it, because AWS API returns environment variables list without keeping order.

For example if job definition's memory is changed, terraform plan shows environment variables diff despite it is not changed. Like the following:

# example aws_batch_job_definition

resource "aws_batch_job_definition" "test" {
  name = "test_batch_env_var_list"
  type = "container"

  container_properties = <<CONTAINER_PROPERTIES
{
    "image": "busybox",
    "memory": 512,
    "vcpus": 1,
    "environment": [
        {"name": "VARNAME1", "value": "VARVAL1"},
        {"name": "VARNAME2", "value": "VARVAL2"},
        {"name": "VARNAME3", "value": "VARVAL3"},
        {"name": "VARNAME4", "value": "VARVAL4"}
    ]
}
CONTAINER_PROPERTIES
}

# got the following diff if memory was changed to 1024. Environment variables were not changed, but diff was showed.

      ~ container_properties  = jsonencode(
          ~ {
              - command              = [] -> null
              ~ environment          = [
                  ~ {
                      ~ name  = "VARNAME3" -> "VARNAME1"
                      ~ value = "VARVAL3" -> "VARVAL1"
                    },
                    {
                        name  = "VARNAME2"
                        value = "VARVAL2"
                    },
                  + {
                      + name  = "VARNAME3"
                      + value = "VARVAL3"
                    },
                    {
                        name  = "VARNAME4"
                        value = "VARVAL4"
                    },
                  - {
                      - name  = "VARNAME1"
                      - value = "VARVAL1"
                    },
                ]
              ~ memory               = 512 -> 1024
              - mountPoints          = [] -> null
              - resourceRequirements = [] -> null
              - secrets              = [] -> null
              - ulimits              = [] -> null
              - volumes              = [] -> null
                # (2 unchanged elements hidden)
            } # forces replacement
        )

Actually same problem existed in AWS ECS task definition, but it was solved with #11463 . That PR's approach was ordering environment variables list, therefore I follow the way to solve problem to keep code consistency.

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Relates #11463
Closes #34947

Output from acceptance testing:

This change is passed unit tests, and worked in my project, but I could not do acceptance tests.

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[rbreslow]

@justinretzolk Hey Justin. Any word on the triage for this issue? We're encountering it (just as we encountered the issue w/ ECS tasks in the past) and it creates a noisy diff each time something small in the job definition changes.

[justinretzolk]

Hey @rbreslow 👋 Thank you for checking in on this, and apologies for taking so long to get back to you. Unfortunately, I'm not able to provide an estimate on when this will be merged/reviewed due to the potential of shifting priorities (we prioritize work by count of ":+1:" reactions, as well as a few other things). For more information on how we prioritize, check out our prioritization guide.

[james-mullen3]

Is there anyway I could assist with issue @justinretzolk? It is impacting us and making Terraform plans very hard to read for actual changes vs env var ordering issues.

[rbreslow]

Yeah, such a small diff, depressing hasn't been resolved and we're in 2024.

[justinretzolk]

Hey all 👋 Thanks for checking in on this one. I suspect it's been a bit tougher to get votes on this one, because I imagine a lot of people ignore the noisy diff and move on. We have dedicated days for trying to get through smaller PRs like this, and I've got this PR on that list to try to get it reviewed a bit quicker.

[danb-csms]

This bug causes our team significant pain, any news on this being merged?

[ulfbayte]

Hello,

Any news on this bug ? It's still an issue for us, it make reading plan a real pain :(

[senseiops]

Hey all 👋 Thanks for checking in on this one. I suspect it's been a bit tougher to get votes on this one, because I imagine a lot of people ignore the noisy diff and move on. We have dedicated days for trying to get through smaller PRs like this, and I've got this PR on that list to try to get it reviewed a bit quicker.

Same here, the diffs are quite annoying.
Any news on the small PR todo list @justinretzolk ?
Thanks.

[ewbankkit]

LGTM 🚀.

% make testacc TESTARGS='-run=TestAccBatchJobDefinition_' PKG=batch ACCTEST_PARALLELISM=3
make: Verifying source code with gofmt...
==> Checking that code complies with gofmt requirements...
TF_ACC=1 go1.23.2 test ./internal/service/batch/... -v -count 1 -parallel 3  -run=TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ -timeout 360m
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_null
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_null
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyMap
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyMap
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_AddOnUpdate
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_AddOnUpdate
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyTag_OnCreate
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyTag_OnCreate
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyTag_OnUpdate_Add
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyTag_OnUpdate_Add
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyTag_OnUpdate_Replace
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyTag_OnUpdate_Replace
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_providerOnly
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_providerOnly
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_nonOverlapping
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_nonOverlapping
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_overlapping
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_overlapping
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_updateToProviderOnly
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_updateToProviderOnly
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_updateToResourceOnly
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_updateToResourceOnly
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_emptyResourceTag
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_emptyResourceTag
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_emptyProviderOnlyTag
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_emptyProviderOnlyTag
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_nullOverlappingResourceTag
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_nullOverlappingResourceTag
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_nullNonOverlappingResourceTag
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_nullNonOverlappingResourceTag
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_ComputedTag_OnCreate
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_ComputedTag_OnCreate
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_ComputedTag_OnUpdate_Add
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_ComputedTag_OnUpdate_Add
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_ComputedTag_OnUpdate_Replace
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_ComputedTag_OnUpdate_Replace
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_basic
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_basic
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_attributes
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_attributes
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_disappears
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_disappears
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_PlatformCapabilities_ec2
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_PlatformCapabilities_ec2
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_PlatformCapabilitiesFargate_containerPropertiesDefaults
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_PlatformCapabilitiesFargate_containerPropertiesDefaults
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_PlatformCapabilities_fargate
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_PlatformCapabilities_fargate
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ContainerProperties_advanced
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ContainerProperties_advanced
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ContainerProperties_minorUpdate
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ContainerProperties_minorUpdate
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_propagateTags
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_propagateTags
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ContainerProperties_EmptyField
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ContainerProperties_EmptyField
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_NodeProperties_basic
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_NodeProperties_basic
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_NodeProperties_advanced
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_NodeProperties_advanced
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_EKSProperties_basic
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_EKSProperties_basic
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_EKSProperties_update
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_EKSProperties_update
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_EKSProperties_imagePullSecrets
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_EKSProperties_imagePullSecrets
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_createTypeContainerWithNodeProperties
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_createTypeContainerWithNodeProperties
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_createTypeMultiNodeWithContainerProperties
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_createTypeMultiNodeWithContainerProperties
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_schedulingPriority
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_schedulingPriority
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_emptyRetryStrategy
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_emptyRetryStrategy
=== RUN   TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ECSProperties_update
=== PAUSE TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ECSProperties_update
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_attributes
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_NodeProperties_advanced
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_NodeProperties_advanced (28.90s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_createTypeMultiNodeWithContainerProperties
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_createTypeMultiNodeWithContainerProperties (4.80s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ECSProperties_update
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_attributes (47.05s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_emptyRetryStrategy
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ECSProperties_update (25.85s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_schedulingPriority
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_emptyRetryStrategy (15.64s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_updateToProviderOnly
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags (63.86s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_basic
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_schedulingPriority (16.68s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_ComputedTag_OnUpdate_Replace
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_basic (16.53s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_ComputedTag_OnUpdate_Add
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_updateToProviderOnly (29.64s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_ComputedTag_OnCreate
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_ComputedTag_OnUpdate_Replace (36.96s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_emptyResourceTag
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_ComputedTag_OnUpdate_Add (36.53s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_updateToResourceOnly
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_ComputedTag_OnCreate (25.36s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_nullNonOverlappingResourceTag
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_emptyResourceTag (18.37s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyTag_OnUpdate_Add
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_nullNonOverlappingResourceTag (18.24s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_overlapping
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_updateToResourceOnly (27.62s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_nonOverlapping
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyTag_OnUpdate_Add (43.22s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_providerOnly
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_overlapping (48.17s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyTag_OnUpdate_Replace
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_nonOverlapping (48.15s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ContainerProperties_advanced
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyTag_OnUpdate_Replace (28.97s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_NodeProperties_basic
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ContainerProperties_EmptyField
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_NodeProperties_basic (18.20s)
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_providerOnly (62.73s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_propagateTags
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ContainerProperties_EmptyField (16.53s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ContainerProperties_minorUpdate
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_propagateTags (13.10s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_EKSProperties_imagePullSecrets
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ContainerProperties_advanced (71.43s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_emptyProviderOnlyTag
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_EKSProperties_imagePullSecrets (16.18s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_createTypeContainerWithNodeProperties
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_createTypeContainerWithNodeProperties (4.65s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_nullOverlappingResourceTag
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_emptyProviderOnlyTag (18.04s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_PlatformCapabilitiesFargate_containerPropertiesDefaults
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_DefaultTags_nullOverlappingResourceTag (18.31s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_PlatformCapabilities_fargate
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_PlatformCapabilitiesFargate_containerPropertiesDefaults (17.27s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_PlatformCapabilities_ec2
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_PlatformCapabilities_fargate (17.19s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_EKSProperties_update
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_PlatformCapabilities_ec2 (16.23s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_EKSProperties_basic
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_ContainerProperties_minorUpdate (78.00s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_AddOnUpdate
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_EKSProperties_basic (16.37s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_disappears
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_EKSProperties_update (26.30s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyTag_OnCreate
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_disappears (14.13s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyMap
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_AddOnUpdate (28.64s)
=== CONT  TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_null
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyTag_OnCreate (32.29s)
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_EmptyMap (22.32s)
--- PASS: TestAccBatchJobDefinition_tags_null (22.13s)
PASS
ok  	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/internal/service/batch	381.731s

[ewbankkit]

@ma2gedev Thanks for the contribution 🎉 👏.

[ma2gedev]

@ewbankkit Thank you very much 🎉

[danb-csms]

thank you for getting this in, will make a big difference to our team

[ulfbayte]

Thanks, it’s really appreciated !

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[ma2gedev]

@ewbankkit I just tried v5.72.1, but it didn't suppress environment variable diffs. This is because your commit b710358 does not contain the changes (52f6bfa) to internal/service/batch/job_definition.go . Could you incorporate the changes to internal/service/batch/job_definition.go?
Thank you in advance.

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