inframap
terracognita
inframap | terracognita | |
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7 | 14 | |
1,626 | 2,098 | |
2.3% | 1.0% | |
3.9 | 3.4 | |
8 months ago | 14 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
terracognita
- Generate Terraform code from your existing cloud infrastructure
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Strategies for converting an existing deployment to IaC?
I haven't worked with any of the ones that purport to work with AWS, but a quick Google shows terraformer and Terracognita as options - maybe look into trying those out?
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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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Importing multiple modules at once from AWS
You can use tools like https://github.com/cycloidio/terracognita or https://github.com/iann0036/former2 to generate the terraform code for you. Then you can consolidate them and if they are simply the same type of objects with different values then you can use terragrunt to pass values to your terraform module.
- Is it possible to import existing infrastructure into Terraform then redeploy it without semantic representation?
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terracognita - --tags syntax for aws?
https://github.com/cycloidio/terracognita/compare/master...fg-322 should fix it
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Tools like terraformer
Terracognita
- Existing AWS resource to HCL?
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Deactivated SFTP servers from AWS transfer family but still getting charged - can you delete a server but still save all configurations/settings somewhere to spin it up easily later?
If you still want to go that way, stuff like the import command and terracognita exist. There's more solutions out there, those are just what came to mind immediately.
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.
terraformer - CLI tool to generate terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Infrastructure to Code
former2 - Generate CloudFormation / Terraform / Troposphere templates from your existing AWS resources.
diagrams - :art: Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures
pulumi-aws - An Amazon Web Services (AWS) Pulumi resource package, providing multi-language access to AWS
rover - Interactive Terraform visualization. State and configuration explorer.
terraboard - :earth_africa: :clipboard: A web dashboard to inspect Terraform States
excalidraw-converter - A command line tool for porting Excalidraw diagrams to Gliffy and draw.io.
Azure-Terraform-Scripts - Terraform scripts on Azure for Windows and Linux VM's
diagram - CLI app to convert ASCII arts into hand drawn diagrams.
azure-terrafy-handsonlab - Azure Terrafy hands on lab