Terraform Dead Man's Snitch Provider

Now available via the Terraform Registry!

Note on Compatability

This branch is meant to work against the latest version of Terraform. For previous versions, see below

• 0.0.x: Terraform 0.11 and earlier
• 0.1.x: Terraform 0.12+

Requirements

• Terraform 0.12.x or higher
• Go 1.18 or higher
• Go module support

Please note the following details if you have built this plugin prior to Terraform 0.12.

Setting up the provider

$ go get -u github.com/plukevdh/terraform-provider-dmsnitch
$ mkdir -p ~/.terraform.d/plugins
$ mv ${GOPATH}/bin/terraform-provider-dmsnitch ~/.terraform.d/plugins

Usage

First create an API token in the Dead Man's Snitch dashboard. Note: Use of the DMS API requires a paid plan.

Copy this key and configure the DMS provider:

provider "dmsnitch" {
  api_key = var.dms_key
}

Optionally, this can be configured using the envvar DMS_TOKEN to avoid storing the token in plaintext config.

Then you can create and manage your DMS snitches like so:

resource "dmsnitch_snitch" "mysnitch" {
  name = "My Important Service"
  notes = "Description or other notes about this snitch."

  interval = "daily"
  type = "basic"
  tags = ["one", "two"]
  alert_email = ["[email protected]", "[email protected]"]
}

You then might use this resource to perform database backup event check-ins with another provider, such as AWS RDS events.

resource "aws_sns_topic" "backup_event" {
  name = "db-backup-events"
}

resource "aws_db_event_subscription" "backup_event" {
  name      = "db-backup-events"
  sns_topic = aws_sns_topic.sbackup_event.arn

  source_type = "db-instance"
  source_ids  = [aws_db_instance.db.id]

  event_categories = [
    "backup",
  ]
}

resource "aws_sns_topic_subscription" "backup_event" {
  endpoint               = dmsnitch_snitch.mysnitch.url
  protocol               = "https"
  endpoint_auto_confirms = true
  topic_arn              = aws_sns_topic.backup_event.arn
}

You can also import existing snitches using their token found in the snitch's page URL:

terraform import dmsnitch_snitch.mysnitch 5b025eecf3

Fields

Field	Required	Values	Defaults
name	yes
notes	no		Managed by Terraform
interval	yes	15_minute, 30_minute, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly	daily
type	yes; smart is only valid for weekly or monthly intervals	basic, smart	basic
tags	no	an array of values
alert_email	no	an array of email addresses

Attributes

Attribute	Description
token, id	The unique snitch ID.
url	The snitch checkin URL (for performing the check-in ping).
status	Health status for the snitch.

For additional details about these fields and their purposes, see the API documentation.

Acknowledgements

This codebase is based heavily off of the Bitbucket Provider codebase.