pike VS terramate

‍Pike is a tool that analyzes Terraform managed resources and automatically generates the necessary IAM permissions, improving security by ensuring that only the minimum necessary permissions are granted.

I test out the Api the hard way, I make a resource and test it with a role that doesnt have the permissions (see the folder i linked), the Api (with azure anyway) tells you what you lack, azure tends to be simpler with crud permissions than aws. I then have another privilege tole that can update the first with each permission and iterate: https://github.com/JamesWoolfenden/pike/tree/master/terraform/azurerm, i then create the mapping file for that resource and add it. I can show you if you need help - send me an email/message/zoom. If you figure a better way i'm all ears, but this way I can be sure on what permissions are required.

You can run my tool pike on your tf to generate iam for aws and gcp. Get it here https://github.com/jamesWoolfenden/pike

I wrote a small tool called Pike. It looks at your TF code and determines and create the IAM policy/Tf resource required to build it. To help you stick to least privilege in your build process. It currently supports a small but growing sub-set of AWS resources, it will support other providers. Use it or ?, but would welcome feedback https://github.com/JamesWoolfenden/pike . Its open source and always will be.

initContainers: - args: - >- curl -L https://github.com/terramate-io/terramate/releases/download/v${TERRAMATE_VERSION}/terramate_${TERRAMATE_VERSION}_linux_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz command: - sh - -c env: - name: TERRAMATE_VERSION value: 0.4.5 image: curlimages/curl name: get-terramate volumeMounts: - mountPath: /home/curl_user/ name: terramate workingDir: /home/curl_user/ extraVolumes: - name: terramate emptyDir: {} extraVolumeMounts: - name: terramate mountPath: /usr/local/bin/terramate subPath: terramate readOnly: true

‍Terramate is an open-source IaC orchestration tool for Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Cloudformation, and others, that streamlines and scales your IaC workflows.

Nice, this looks close to https://terramate.io/ stacks

You might want to take a look at Terramate. Compared to other tooling such as Terragrunt we're not a wrapper that will lock you in yet another syntax. Terramate is a code generator and orchestrator that helps you to generate native Terraform that can be executed in whatever environment of your choice.

Another option for Terragrunt could be Terramate. It comes with Code Generation that helps you to automatically generate files such as Terraform, Provider and Backend configurations in various stacks (directories). The upside is that it always generates native Terraform code.

This can be done with a tool such as Terramate or Terragrunt (afaik Terragrunt doesn't come with change detection).

I'd love to add Terramate to the list of alternatives to Terraform Cloud!

That sounds like something Terramate helps with. I've been using it exactly for that purpose (code generation) and it made everything so much easier!