A Service where a Push Is Not a Deploy
auto_deployments takes every push to the image tag straight to production with no review, which quietly makes the deployment gate "who can push". Off by default, egress routed through your VPC, and the pull role kept separate from the run role.
Verification
Static-verifiedPassed: validated and lint-clean (provider-schema-validated for AWS/Azure/GCP; Terraform-language lint elsewhere).
Conformance
- Static validation (fmt · validate · tflint)
- Security scan clean (Checkov)
- Plan tests (mocked: validation rules · outputs)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live test pending (no cloud run yet)
Last verified 2026-09-13 · how we verify
Use it from the registry
terraform · opentofumodule "app_runner" {
source = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/aws-app-runner/aws"
version = "1.0.0"
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Documentation
aws-app-runner
An App Runner service from a container image, with the two settings that decide
who can deploy it and where it can reach. Works with Terraform and OpenTofu
(>= 1.6), AWS provider >= 6.0, < 7.0.
auto_deployments_enabled turns every push into a deploy. Push a new image
to the tag this service watches and App Runner takes it to production - no
review, no approval, no pipeline stage in between. It is genuinely convenient,
and it means the deployment gate is now "who can push to this ECR
repository", which is usually a wider set of people and machines than "who can
deploy". Off here, and deploys_on_push is an output so a policy test can
assert on it.
Egress defaults to AWS's network, not yours. Without a VPC connector the
service reaches the internet directly and cannot reach anything private - so
a database in your VPC is unreachable - while a compromised dependency has an
unfiltered path out. The connector fixes both at once, and the module creates
one when you pass vpc.
Two roles, deliberately separate. access_role_arn is what App Runner
assumes to pull the image; instance_role_arn is what the code runs as.
Conflating them gives the running container permission to pull from every
repository the puller can reach.
runtime_environment_variables are readable through DescribeService and in
the console, so a precondition refuses any name matching password,
secret, token, api_key, private_key or credential.
environment_secrets takes an ARN resolved at start instead.
Smaller things: the health check defaults to HTTP with a real path, because a TCP check passes as soon as something is listening - including an application that cannot reach its database; and the example pins an image digest rather than a tag, since a tag can be moved under you.
Verification
Static validation runs tofu fmt, init, validate, tflint and checkov.
This module has not yet had a live test, so it is published as statically
validated with its live test pending and does not carry the live-tested mark.
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