Alternatives to Terraform

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/devops

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  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
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  • askai

    Command Line Interface for OpenAi ChatGPT (by yudax42)

  • cfn-python-lint

    CloudFormation Linter

  • Honestly I've had good luck writing clean Cloud Formation. It's AWS only. But Nested Stacks can help keep things pretty clean and tools like cfn-lint do a pretty good job of preventing you from going too crazy with spaghetti code. Additionally, as it's all json/yaml, you can parse it to look for common problems your organization wants to enforce. So you can ensure things like specific tags your roles/vpc etc..., or usage of an "approved" set of AMI, requiring an EKS/RDS cluster to be split across availability zones; they're all just a test in your CI pipeline away.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • pulumi-awsx

    AWS infrastructure best practices in component form!

  • Absolutely. Modules, conditionals, outputs are all much easier to use with Pulumi. Obviously I don't know precisely what you're trying to do, but for example you can have one top level program that conditionally makes whatever resources you need from a yaml configuration, dictionary, arrays, or just multiple if/then statements. If you create everything in one stack you can chain the outputs easily and Pulumi will figure out the dependencies. These resources can be separate included modules, classes etc. Here's a good place to look for pre-built things: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/guides/crosswalk/aws/

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  • sparrowci-aws-example

    Example of deploying aws infra using SparrowCI

  • I actually updated the example and now code uses plugins and is way more readable - https://github.com/melezhik/sparrowci-aws-example/blob/main/sparrow.yaml , let me know what you think ))

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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