cloud-radar VS terraform-cdk

I'm the author of Cloud-Radar, a Cloudformation testing framework written in Python. I just released v0.7.0 which had some major user experience improvements and I wanted to share it with all of you.

But I think it's okay if you like Cloudformation. In fact, I have another project that you will love. I created a testing framework for Cloudformation templates called Cloud-Radar. It allows you to test your templates locally without credentials. https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/cloud-radar

Final follow up ;)

If you like Cloudformation, you might be interested in my Cloudformation testing library.

https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/cloud-radar

It's the most powerful Cloudformation testing framework that exists.

It allows you to unit test your Templates locally with out deploying resources. That also means you don't need valid AWS creds while unit testing.

If you are using cloudformation, I have a python testing library https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/cloud-radar

It allows unit testing of cloudformation templates locally without needing aws credentials or deploying anything.

It also supports functional testing of cloudformation stacks once they are deployed.

Full guide on my blog https://la-tech.co/post/hypermodern-cloudformation/getting-s...

https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/jenkins-std-lib A Jenkins shared library with a couple cool things like running GitHub Actions on Jenkins.

https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/cloud-radar Unit and Functional testing of AWS Cloudformation templates. The unit testing part allows you to test locally without needing AWS creds.

https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/sebs Stateful Elastic Block Storage was created so that you could make sure that a AWS ec2 instance always had the same EBS volume mounted to it. Really handy for a Ec2 instance in an ASG with a count of 1.

I created a tool called cloud-radar that would allow me to test the logic that is inside of a Cloudformation templates. Things like the conditionals and intrinsic functions. This all happens locally without deploying and worrying about credentials or assuming roles. You can take a template like this and test it like this:

At first I tested it to deploy an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Service (MKS) with a Node Pool. And step by step, it worked. I even created a Pull Request (PR) in the terraform-cdk repository to add it as an example ☺️.

I'll be trying more sample app deployments with CDK and maybe even explore CDK for Terraform.

You can use CDK with other providers using https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk

In my experience, CDK is far better than Pulumi, especially if you're mostly going to be using AWS.

I, personally, prefer Crossplane Composite Functions on top of CDK8S, but had dropped CDKTF due to bloat. You can actually manage Kubernetes updates/upgrade lifecycle with Crossplane, as well.

I was going to recommend Pulumi, but looks like CDK for Terraform is still being kept up to date.

Avoid Pulumi, get directly to source and use https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk