cli
a lightweight, security focused, BDD test framework against terraform. (by terraform-compliance)
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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| cli | terratest | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 46 | |
| 1,321 | 7,330 | |
| 0.6% | 0.7% | |
| 5.3 | 8.7 | |
| 20 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Python | Go | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cli
Posts with mentions or reviews of cli.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-23.
- terraform-compliance
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Looking for a tool to enforce policies on terraform files names/content
You could also look at terraform compliance
- Alternative to Terraform Sentinel
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tf-free: A project to create free resources on all cloud-providers
+1 for tfsec. Another cool tool is terraform-compliance, although I can't say I've used it recently so I'm not sure how it compares to tfsec.
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Azure terraform-compliance examples?
If you mean this https://terraform-compliance.com/#supporting--requirements then yes, it doesn't support modules if you use Terraform 0.11.x (or lower).
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Terraforming in 2021 – new features, testing and compliance
A direct open source comparable alternative would be using terraform-compliance. It follows BDD directives so that you can specify in an easy human readable way your expectations, using:
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.
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Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024
Terratest is a Go library that provides tools and patterns for testing infrastructure, with first-class support for Terraform, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes, and more. It's used to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
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Saw a not-so-good thing in my pipeline. How do we fix it?
I think I found it. This is the one right? https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terratest/
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terracove - open-source to instantly test the health of your terraform/terragrunt repository
What it does in parallel is basically init/plan/show using terratest on every subdirectory on your repository tree or provided paths. The output is either a JSON summary or a custom made Junit XML test file you can ingest into your tests reader. It took it around 8 minutes to map the entirety of our bloated repository.
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Trunk Based Development: Confused about how to test code before pushing to main? How does the deploy process work for many environments?
You could deploy to a separate account (usually dev first), you can use terratest, you could try something like LocalStack. I dare say there’s other methods.
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terratest for infrastructure
Was wondering if anyone has tried https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terratest to test their infrastructure. I like it because I can write golang tests! Thats a big plus for me.
- Is there a testing framework for Kubernetes and AWS resources?
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How long have you guys actually had the title “platform engineer”? What other titles did you have before that, if any?
Once there is a CI pipeline for delivering infra changes you can add static code analysis tools (checkov) and even start testing changes (terratest)
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Testing Terraform infra - terratest alternatives?
https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terratest/blob/master/test/azure/terraform_azure_example_test.go https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terratest/blob/master/examples/terraform-backend-example/main.tf
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Appreciation for terraform
Another plus is to add tests into your workflow, just by adding a run step with terratest
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Breve guia de sobrevivência com Terraform
Terratest: Framework de testes para Terraform, os testes devem ser escritos em Golang.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cli and terratest you can also consider the following projects:
tfsec - Security scanner for your Terraform code
inspec - InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework
tfsec - Security scanner for your Terraform code [Moved to: https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec]
checkov - Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
tflint - A Pluggable Terraform Linter
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.
conftest - Write tests against structured configuration data using the Open Policy Agent Rego query language
awspec - RSpec tests for your AWS resources.
atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation