inframap
atlantis
inframap | atlantis | |
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7 | 121 | |
1,629 | 7,319 | |
2.3% | 1.4% | |
3.9 | 9.7 | |
8 months ago | 7 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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inframap
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Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024
Like Blast Radius, InfraMap generates visual graphs of your infrastructure based on Terraform state or configurations, offering a visual overview of your infrastructure, which is especially helpful for large and complex environments.
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Monthly 'Shameless Self Promotion' thread - 2023/05
We also contribute to the open-source community with projects like InfraMap, that generate your infra diagram on the fly based on your tfstate or the most famous TerraCognita, a reverse Terraform.
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Diagram as Code
Pretty cool. The biggest thing I think is missing from many popular diagramming tools is the ability to easily diff the architecture across changes. Although that can already be done with graphviz source files.
However, these days I prefer to just have diagrams generated from the source code itself, like:
- https://github.com/cycloidio/inframap
- https://graphviz.org/Gallery/directed/bazel.html
In order to make a compelling use case out of having to maintain a parallel definition like this, I think it needs to be able to contribute to analysis like formal verification or, despite them stating that it's not a goal, being able to create the described architecture. Or even generate something like a terraform plan. Otherwise it falls victim to the same problem as any other method of creating diagrams, that of them falling out of sync with the system.
They are a long way there already by providing a way to use a programming language backed by a large ecosystem of other tools that can be used to work with e.g. terraform, like python/go.
- How to install and use inframap?
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Interactive Architecture Diagrams
I used https://github.com/cycloidio/inframap last week, was a good experience for me
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Tools to Visualize your Terraform plan
Inframap reads your tfstate or HCL to generate a graph specific for each provider, showing only the resources that are most important/relevant.
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PowerShell module to Visualize and Document Azure Infrastructure
Also if you want to easily visualize your HCL or TFState we did https://github.com/cycloidio/inframap which will allow you to visualize those in a more easy/readable way than just JSON.
atlantis
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OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Provider-defined Functions
None of these are a replacement of Terraform Cloud (recently rebranded to HCP Terraform). For example, when you create a PR, it could affect multiple workspaces. The new experimental version of TFC/TFE (I refuse to call it HCP!) implements Stacks, which is something like a workflow, and links one workspace output to other workspace inputs. None of the open-source solutions, including the paid Digger [0], support this - only the paid one, such as Spacelift [1] (which is the closest to TFC if you ask me). Having a monorepo of Terraform is a common design pattern, so, if I change an embedded module, it could trigger changes it many workspaces. As far as I know, Atlantis [2] can't really help in this case.
By the way, the reason I singled-out Spacelift is due to its quality, and the great Terraform provider it has. Scalr [3], for example, has a really low-quality Terraform provider. I extensively use the hashicorp/tfe provider to manage TFC itself.
[0]: https://digger.dev/
[1]: https://spacelift.io/
[2]: https://www.runatlantis.io/
[3]: https://www.scalr.com/
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Terramate meets Atlantis 🚀
Atlantis is a pull request automation tool that works well with plain Terraform right away. But what if we're already using Terramate to generate Terraform code?
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Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024
Atlantis automates reviewing and deploying Terraform via pull requests, streamlining collaboration and ensuring consistency across Terraform deployments.
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Stop Squinting at IaC Templates: Preview Diffs for Argo CD, Terraform, and more!
For example, Atlantisgo for Terraform, Zapier’s Kubechecks for Argo CD, Quizlet’s GitHub action all do something similar to this. But a generic, extensible tool for IaC providers doesn’t seem to exist. Additionally, many of them require exposing your Kubernetes cluster or other infrastructure to third-party access, webhooks, etc.
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Self-service infrastructure as code
Our first attempt was to introduce other engineering teams to Terraform - the Platform team was already using it extensively with Terragrunt, and using Atlantis to automate plan and apply operations in a Git flow to ensure infrastructure was consistent. We'd written modules, with documentation, and an engineer would simply need to raise a PR to use the module and provide the right values, and Atlantis (once the PR was approved by Platform) would go ahead and set it up for them.
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Seamless Cloud Infrastructure: Integrating Terragrunt and Terraform with AWS
Alternatively, you can look at solutions like Atlantis or spacelift.
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What is the equivalent of docker-compose for terraform?
Atlantis: https://www.runatlantis.io/
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Version of terraform binary cli does it include in the container
Looking at the commits at https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis, it looks like 1.6.5. Am I right?
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Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock
We use Atlantis [0] for CI/CD automation of Terraform pull requests to a centralized repository. It's pretty good too, especially for a self-hosted solution. I can't see how Terraform Cloud's costs would be justifiable for us without a custom contract.
[0] https://www.runatlantis.io/
- Atlantis claims exemption from new HashiCorp license
What are some alternatives?
terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
terraform-github-actions - Terraform GitHub Actions
terraformer - CLI tool to generate terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Infrastructure to Code
argo-cd - Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes
diagrams - :art: Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures
backstage - Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
terracognita - Reads from existing public and private cloud providers (reverse Terraform) and generates your infrastructure as code on Terraform configuration
terragrunt - Terragrunt is a thin wrapper for Terraform that provides extra tools for working with multiple Terraform modules.
rover - Interactive Terraform visualization. State and configuration explorer.
Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀
excalidraw-converter - A command line tool for porting Excalidraw diagrams to Gliffy and draw.io.
tfsec - Security scanner for your Terraform code [Moved to: https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec]