feat: add autodiscover enabled feature (#3895)

* add flag to allow the user disable the autodiscover

* add global config and doc

* feat: Implement autodiscover.mode

* fix: Minor doc fixes

* fix: Small fixes to docs/indent/tests

* fix: Line length, quoting, function comments

* fix: Add a few more tests and remove newlines

* fix: Always camel case never snake

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Co-authored-by: Marcelo Medeiros <m.medeiros@carepay.com>
Co-authored-by: nitrocode <7775707+nitrocode@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: PePe Amengual <jose.amengual@gmail.com>

cmd/server.go

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ const (
 	AllowForkPRsFlag                 = "allow-fork-prs"
 	AllowRepoConfigFlag              = "allow-repo-config"
 	AtlantisURLFlag                  = "atlantis-url"
+	AutoDiscoverModeFlag             = "autodiscover-mode"
 	AutomergeFlag                    = "automerge"
 	ParallelPlanFlag                 = "parallel-plan"
 	ParallelApplyFlag                = "parallel-apply"
@@ -148,6 +149,7 @@ const (
 	DefaultADBasicUser                  = ""
 	DefaultADBasicPassword              = ""
 	DefaultADHostname                   = "dev.azure.com"
+	DefaultAutoDiscoverMode             = "auto"
 	DefaultAutoplanFileList             = "**/*.tf,**/*.tfvars,**/*.tfvars.json,**/terragrunt.hcl,**/.terraform.lock.hcl"
 	DefaultAllowCommands                = "version,plan,apply,unlock,approve_policies"
 	DefaultCheckoutStrategy             = CheckoutStrategyBranch
@@ -207,6 +209,12 @@ var stringFlags = map[string]stringFlag{
 	AtlantisURLFlag: {
 		description: "URL that Atlantis can be reached at. Defaults to http://$(hostname):$port where $port is from --" + PortFlag + ". Supports a base path ex. https://example.com/basepath.",
 	},
+	AutoDiscoverModeFlag: {
+		description: "Auto discover mode controls whether projects in a repo are discovered by Atlantis. Defaults to 'auto' which " +
+			"means projects will be discovered when no explicit projects are defined in repo config. Also supports 'enabled' (always " +
+			"discover projects) and 'disabled' (never discover projects).",
+		defaultValue: DefaultAutoDiscoverMode,
+	},
 	AutoplanModulesFromProjects: {
 		description: "Comma separated list of file patterns to select projects Atlantis will index for module dependencies." +
 			" Indexed projects will automatically be planned if a module they depend on is modified." +
@@ -871,6 +879,9 @@ func (s *ServerCmd) setDefaults(c *server.UserConfig) {
 	if c.WebPassword == "" {
 		c.WebPassword = DefaultWebPassword
 	}
+	if c.AutoDiscoverModeFlag == "" {
+		c.AutoDiscoverModeFlag = DefaultAutoDiscoverMode
+	}
 }
 
 func (s *ServerCmd) validate(userConfig server.UserConfig) error {

cmd/server_test.go

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ var testFlags = map[string]interface{}{
 	AllowCommandsFlag:                "version,plan,unlock,import,approve_policies", // apply is disabled by DisableApply
 	AllowForkPRsFlag:                 true,
 	AllowRepoConfigFlag:              true,
+	AutoDiscoverModeFlag:             "auto",
 	AutomergeFlag:                    true,
 	AutoplanFileListFlag:             "**/*.tf,**/*.yml",
 	BitbucketBaseURLFlag:             "https://bitbucket-base-url.com",