conftest VS terratest

Compare conftest vs terratest and see what are their differences.

conftest

Write tests against structured configuration data using the Open Policy Agent Rego query language (by open-policy-agent)

terratest

Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code. (by gruntwork-io)
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conftest terratest
9 46
2,782 7,324
0.9% 0.7%
8.5 8.7
5 days ago 28 days ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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conftest

Posts with mentions or reviews of conftest. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-28.
  • Introducing Conftest and setting up CI with Github Actions to automate reviewing of Terraform code
    3 projects | dev.to | 28 Dec 2021
    name: tf-plan-apply on: pull_request: branches: [ main ] env: TF_VERSION: 1.0.0 CONFTEST_VERSION: 0.28.3 WORKING_DIR: ./ jobs: terraform: name: aws-eureka-pairs-etc-s3 runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v2 - name: Install conftest run: | wget -O - 'https://github.com/open-policy-agent/conftest/releases/download/v${{ env.CONFTEST_VERSION }}/conftest_${{ env.CONFTEST_VERSION }}_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz' | tar zxvf - ./conftest --version //❶ - name: Setup Terraform uses: hashicorp/setup-terraform@v1 with: terraform_wrapper: false //❷ terraform_version: ${{ env.TF_VERSION }} cli_config_credentials_token: ${{ secrets.YOUR_CRED_NAME}} - name: Terraform Init ${{ env.WORKING_DIR }} working-directory: ${{ env.WORKING_DIR }} run: terraform init - name: Terraform Plan ${{ env.WORKING_DIR }} if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' env: GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} working-directory: ${{ env.WORKING_DIR }} id: plan run: terraform plan -out=tfplan -no-color -lock=false -parallelism=50 - name: Convert terraform plan result to json formmat if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' id: convert working-directory: ${{ env.WORKING_DIR }} run: terraform show -json tfplan > tfplan.json - name: conftest test if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' id: conftest run: ./conftest test --no-color ${{ env.WORKING_DIR }}/tfplan.json //❸
  • Kubernetes Security Checklist 2021
    28 projects | dev.to | 18 Oct 2021
    Workload configuration should be audited regularly (Kics, Kubeaudit, Kubescape, Conftest, Kubesec, Checkov)
  • Don't let your Terraform go rogue with Conftest and the Open Policy Agent
    2 projects | dev.to | 25 Jun 2021
    Insert Conftest! As they state in their GitHub description, Conftest tests against structured configuration data using the Open Policy Agent Rego query language. In the case of Terraform, this means we're actually running unit tests against sample JSON and actual tests against the Terraform state JSON.
  • Terraforming in 2021 – new features, testing and compliance
    12 projects | dev.to | 2 May 2021
    If you like terraform-compliance, Conftest might also be worth having a look. It has its own DSL to write policies, and allows you to test multiple frameworks. We found this blog post from Lennard Eijsackers very informative, and would thus rather recommend you to check it out.
  • Mental models for understanding Kubernetes Pod Security Policy PSP
    4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 16 Jan 2021
    Can Gatekeeper and Conftest single-source the same set of rules? I'm looking at https://github.com/open-policy-agent/conftest/issues/54#issuecomment-528988831 and not seeing how.

terratest

Posts with mentions or reviews of terratest. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing conftest and terratest you can also consider the following projects:

inspec - InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework

checkov - Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.

driftctl - Detect, track and alert on infrastructure drift

terragrunt - Terragrunt is a thin wrapper for Terraform that provides extra tools for working with multiple Terraform modules.

tflint - A Pluggable Terraform Linter

atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation

terrascan - Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure. [Moved to: https://github.com/accurics/terrascan]

terraform-cdk - Define infrastructure resources using programming constructs and provision them using HashiCorp Terraform

LocalStack - 💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline

Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀

tfsec - Security scanner for your Terraform code [Moved to: https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec]