adeploy VS tofu-controller

We created adeploy, which is using Jinja Templating to render Manifests out of a set of template files and variables. We added some functions i.e. to set versions, create labels, include files or to handle secret creation using gopass and support to run in CI/CD without re-creating secrets. Source + (some) docs: https://github.com/awesome-it/adeploy

We wrote adeploy which brings Jinja templating for both vanilla manifests and Helm Charts which includes a bench of useful Jinja templating functions i.e. for labeling, secret management etc... The tool supports multiple deployments at different namespaces/releases with different Jinja variables and also includes support to deploy secrets directly from GoPass. It can also be used in CI/CD while secrets are not re-deployed when running via CI/CD. The tool still lacks of some detailed docs and a public pip repo, but this is wip.

We stumbled upon a project for maintaining Terraform with CRDs that we could deploy with Helm. That project is now called Tofu-Controller - another WeaveWorks project, so it integrated great with our existing Flux setup.

https://github.com/weaveworks/tf-controller/issues/1166#issu...

Weave's TF-Controller, which also has fewer bugs, much better adoption, and it looks like it's actually being developed by someone. But requires a weird argocd <-> flux interop boilerplate. It's a "controller for flux" and not a Kubernetes controller, and I don't really get such ambiguous targeting , but meh...

Wrt tools, I wanted to integrate terraform with Flux thanks to their tf-controller. Conciling the core gitops features with terraform would be great imho.

I'm using Flux instead of Argo which has support for running terraform from a given Git Repo or OCI artifact so essentially I still fall back on Terraform when needed and it's applied via GitOps.

tf-controller which is integrated with Flux GitOps and reconciles Terraform files in a control loop

While searching for alternatives for running Terraform using Kubernetes, I found several controllers and operators, but none that I felt had as much potential as the tf-controller from Weaveworks. We are already using Flux as our GitOps tool, and the tf-controller works by utilizing some of the core functionality from Flux, and has a custom resource for Terraform deployments. The source controller takes care of fetching our modules, the kustomize controllers apply the Terraform resources, and then the controller spin up static pods (called runners) that runs your Terraform commands.

For us, GitOps is a vital part of how we operate, and it is the magic sauce that fuels our platform offering. Not only do we use it for application deployments, but by utilizing the Weaveworks tf-controller, we can create services using Terraform to automate our infrastructure deployments.

Some further research brought me to Weaveworks' TF-Controller which appears to be able to do what I want at least for the initial deployment step. Flux CD (also by Weaveworks) integrates with KEDA now, so it would be great if it could also integrate with KEDA to manage terraform-deployed Azure resources.