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awesome-tf
- List of most useful Terraform open-source tools
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Cool Terraform Tools and Programs list
If you want a list of tools and resources for a particular topic, then the best way to go is to search "awesome-yourtopic". So, for terraform it is awesome-terraform
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What's your go-to website for DevOps related content?
Honestly github. Searching for "awesome" repositories like awesome-terraform can be super insightful in how open source projects implement something. Also just searching for something like "such-and-such ansible" or "such-and-such terraform" is a great way to learn new techniques.
- Quick Tech - awesome-terraform
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How to realistically validate Terraform code before applying?
I found tflint in https://github.com/shuaibiyy/awesome-terraform to check before apply
terraform-docs
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Managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) With Terraform
Documentation is really important, so having a README.md file inside your Terraform repository that explains how to use the automation (including descriptions of variables and outputs) really help in understanding what has been implemented. To easily generate the description of variables and outputs, you can leverage tfdocs.
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Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024
Terraform-docs is a tool that automatically generates documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats, including markdown, JSON, and others. It's particularly useful for maintaining up-to-date documentation of your Terraform modules' inputs, outputs, providers, and resources.
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GitHub Actions - Automated Terraform-docs
Earlier this year I wrote about the challenges I faced creating a Terraform module. I mentioned then that I was leveraging terraform-docs and GitHub Actions to automate documentation, but a full workflow walkthrough was out of that post's scope.
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Automating Terraform Documentation with Terraform-Docs and Azure DevOps
### Muti-Stage pipeline for windows trigger: - main variables: terraformDocsVersion: '0.16.0' serviceConnectionName: 'Terraform-SPN-DevOps-MagiconionM' keyvaultName: 'pwd9000-core-kv' pool: vmImage: 'windows-latest' stages: - stage: GenerateTerraformDocumentation jobs: - job: Generate_Terraform_Documentation steps: - checkout: self persistCredentials: true # this allows the later scripts to use the system-provided git token to push changes back to the repo ### Link to key vault. - task: AzureKeyVault@1 inputs: azureSubscription: $(serviceConnectionName) #ADO service connection (Service principal) KeyVaultName: $(keyvaultName) SecretsFilter: 'TerraformDocsPAToken' RunAsPreJob: true displayName: Get PAToken from Keyvault ### Install Terraform-Docs. - powershell: | Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/terraform-docs/terraform-docs/releases/download/v$(terraformDocsVersion)/terraform-docs-v$(terraformDocsVersion)-windows-amd64.zip" -OutFile "terraform-docs.zip" Expand-Archive -Path "terraform-docs.zip" -DestinationPath "$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)\terraform-docs" -Force $env:Path += ";$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)\terraform-docs" displayName: 'Install terraform-docs' ### Remove all old README.md files and generate new README.md files for each TF module. - powershell: | # Set Modules Root Directory Set-Location "$(Build.SourcesDirectory)\@TF_Modules" # Get all subdirectories (Terraform module directories) $terraformModuleDirs = Get-ChildItem -Path (Get-Location) -Directory # Loop through each directory to cleanup/remove old README files foreach ($dir in $terraformModuleDirs) { # Get all files in the directory $readMeFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir.FullName -Filter 'README.md' # Loop through each file in each terraform module foreach ($file in $readMeFiles) { # Check if README file already exists and remove if ($file) { # Remove the file Remove-Item $file.FullName -Confirm:$false Write-Output "Old file '$($file.Name)' removed from '$($dir.FullName)'" } } #After cleanup create a new README.md file with 'terraform-docs' based on latest TF module code in current folder(terraform module) $tfFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir.FullName -Filter *.tf if ($tfFiles.Count -gt 0) { # Create new README.md file $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)\terraform-docs\terraform-docs.exe markdown table $dir.FullName --output-file "README.md" } else { Write-Output "No .tf files found." } } displayName: 'Cleanup and Generate new README for each TF module' ### Commit and push updated README.md files for TF modules. - powershell: | git config --local user.email "[email protected]" git config --local user.name "Terraform Docs" git add *.md git commit -m "Update README.md for each TF module" git push origin HEAD:$(Build.SourceBranchName) displayName: 'Commit and Push updated README.md files for TF modules' env: SYSTEM_ACCESSTOKEN: $(TerraformDocsPAToken)
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How to understand existing code?
I'm going to have to figure out how to run terraform-docs.io against each module. I have zero terraform experience.
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5 tools to supercharge your Terraform Development
Terraform-docs: This tool generates documentation for your Terraform modules in various formats, such as Markdown, HTML, and JSON. Terraform-docs parses your Terraform code and extracts documentation from comments, variable and output descriptions, and input/output examples. The tool then generates a table of contents with links to the relevant documentation for each module, which makes it easy to understand the purpose and usage of each module.
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How to Write an Awesome Readme
Terraform docs
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Terraform documentation of modules with nested inputs with optuonals?
I have been using https://terraform-docs.io to generate documentation of my terraform modules. However creating nested objects with optionals makes the documentation rather ugly and hard to read. See gh issue which also describes this type of issue: https://github.com/terraform-docs/terraform-docs/issues/656
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Automating release docs for ansible roles
I am looking for a way to automate doc creation and updates for ansible roles. I recently discovered terraform-docs and I am curious if there is something similar for ansible.
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List of most useful Terraform open-source tools
terraform-docs: https://github.com/terraform-docs/terraform-docs
Do you have other Terraform-related open-source tools that you recommend? Please go ahead and add in the comments!
What are some alternatives?
gaia - Gaia is a Terraform 🌍 UI for your modules, and self-service infrastructure 👨💻
pre-commit-hooks - Some out-of-the-box hooks for pre-commit
terraformize - Apply\Destory Terraform modules via a simple REST API endpoint.
lens - Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes
awesome-scalability - The Patterns of Scalable, Reliable, and Performant Large-Scale Systems
atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation
terratag - Terratag is a CLI tool that enables users of Terraform to automatically create and maintain tags across their entire set of AWS, Azure, and GCP resources
tflint - A Pluggable Terraform Linter
Terraform-Guide - Terraform Guide
typedoc - Documentation generator for TypeScript projects.
tapir - A Private Terraform Registry
terragrunt - Terragrunt is a thin wrapper for Terraform that provides extra tools for working with multiple Terraform modules.