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How to Install & Run Infrastructure Apps

Fix Inventory infrastructure apps are low-code applications can be installed to extend Fix Inventory's functionality.

Infrastructure apps can perform simple tasks like cleaning up untagged resources, finding abandoned load balancers, or sending notifications to Slack, Discord, or PagerDuty.

How safe are Fix Inventory infrastructure apps?

An infrastructure app can not execute any Fix Inventory commands directly. Instead, it generates Fix Inventory commands which are then executed by Fix Inventory.

An app has read-only access to the Fix Inventory Infrastructure Graph using the search() function, meaning that it can only retrieve information about resources that are already known to Fix Inventory.

To modify resources, an app needs to generate a Fix Inventory command that does so.

Prerequisites​

This guide assumes that you have already installed Fix Inventory.

Directions​

  1. Search for an app using the app search command:

    > apps search cleanup

  2. Use the app install command to install the app:

    > apps install cleanup-untagged

  3. Run the app using the app run command:

    > apps run cleanup-untagged
    tip

    Add the optional --dry-run flag to see what commands the app would perform, without actually executing them.

    info

    By default, Fix Inventory passes the app a configuration that corresponds to the app name.

    For example, when installing an app named foobar, Fix Inventory creates a default config named fix.apps.foobar.

    If you would like to run the app with an alternative config, you can specify the config name using the --config argument.

    Please refer to app run Command for more information.

Further Reading​