terramate VS terraform-switcher

Terramate: It seems like a good alternative, and I think it could have been a better choice for certain issues we had. With Terramate the transition from Terraform might have been easier since Terraform projects can be imported seamlessly. Furthermore, we don't have to think right away about how to modularize everything. The reason it was not chosen, is that my team was mainly familiar with Terragrunt. We had no experience with Terramate, so we decided to play it safely.

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!

‍TFSwitch is a CLI tool that allows easy switching between different Terraform versions, simplifying workflows in environments where multiple Terraform versions are used.

tfswitch might help with particular issue of terraform versioning:

https://tfswitch.warrensbox.com/

Even then some versions of terraform providers are not compatible with M1 macs. Docker would help with that probably, but so can: https://github.com/kreuzwerker/m1-terraform-provider-helper

Perhaps these sort of issues support the benefits of per-module docker images?

My approach is to change the version in the version.tf file, install the new version using tfswitch (https://tfswitch.warrensbox.com/) and execute a plan. If infrastructure matches the configuration I will asume there are no breaking changes...

Also, an excellent tool can help with fast switching between different Terraform versions while you’re experimenting — tfswitch.

https://tfswitch.warrensbox.com/ for switching between Terraform versions

It was easy. I didn't use terraform-version files like you, but there are similar ways to automatically switch versions. https://github.com/warrensbox/terraform-switcher

Terraform Switcher - yet another project essentially doing the same written in go;