Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024

• tflint

  30 4,604 8.9 Go

  A Pluggable Terraform Linter

  

‍TFLint is a Terraform linter focused on possible errors, best practices, and style conventions in your Terraform code.

• OPA (Open Policy Agent)

  90 9,118 9.6 Go

  Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.

  

A popular Policy-as-Code tool for Terraform is OPA, everyone's favorite versatile open-source policy engine that enforces security and compliance policies across your cloud-native stack, making it easier to manage and maintain consistent policy enforcement in complex, multi-service environments.

• InfluxDB

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• terrascan

  22 4,494 6.9 Go

  Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure.

  

‍Terrascan is a static code analysis tool that scans your Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for security vulnerabilities and compliance violations. It supports multiple platforms like (AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s, Atlantis, etc), including Terraform. Terrascan allows you to enforce security best practices, compliance policies, and governance across your IaC deployments.

• checkov

  54 6,512 9.9 Python

  Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.

  

‍Checkov is another great tool that examines your Terraform files (.tf), parsing the configurations and evaluating them against a comprehensive set of predefined policies. It scans Terraform-managed infrastructure and detects misconfigurations that could lead to security issues or non-compliance with best practices and regulations.

• tfsec

  28 6,561 5.5 Go

  Security scanner for your Terraform code

  

‍Tfsec acts as a Terraform scanning tool. It is a security-focused linter for Terraform that scans code for security flaws, offering an additional layer of security assurance and helping to maintain a strong security posture.

• terratest

  46 7,336 8.4 Go

  Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.

  

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.

• terragrunt

  56 7,621 9.2 Go

  Terragrunt is a thin wrapper for Terraform that provides extra tools for working with multiple Terraform modules.

  

‍Terragrunt is a thin wrapper that provides extra tools for keeping your Terraform configurations DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself), working with multiple Terraform modules, and managing remote state. It's particularly useful in managing large-scale infrastructure deployments with Terraform.

• WorkOS

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• infracost

  85 10,266 9.7 Go

  Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests💰📉 Shift FinOps Left!

  

‍Infracost is a cost estimation tool that generates cost estimates for Terraform projects, which is crucial for budget planning and cost optimization, especially in cloud environments where resource costs can vary significantly.

• driftctl

  31 2,406 0.0 Go

  Detect, track and alert on infrastructure drift

  

‍Driftctl is an open-source Terraform drift detection tool that tracks and warns about infrastructure drift. Driftctl scans your infrastructure, compares it with your IaC configurations (like Terraform), and reports discrepancies.

• terraformer

  109 11,763 7.6 Go

  CLI tool to generate terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Infrastructure to Code

  

‍Terraformer is a CLI tool developed by Google that generates Terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform), simplifying the process of adopting Terraform in existing environments and speeding up the initial setup process. Terraformer supports multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and others.

• pike

  6 499 9.3 Go

  Pike is a tool for determining the permissions or policy required for IAC code

‍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.

• terratag

  7 894 5.3 Go

  Terratag is a CLI tool that enables users of Terraform to automatically create and maintain tags across their entire set of AWS, Azure, and GCP resources

  

‍Terratag is a tool designed to assign tags or labels to a complete collection of Terraform or Terragrunt files. It enables applying tags or labels to resources within AWS, GCP, and Azure.

• blast-radius

  3 1,991 0.0 JavaScript

  Interactive visualizations of Terraform dependency graphs using d3.js

‍Blast Radius is a tool designed to provide interactive visualizations of Terraform dependency graphs. It's particularly useful for understanding and communicating the architecture and potential impact of changes in Terraform-managed infrastructure.

• terraform-visual

  4 584 0.0 TypeScript

  Terraform Visual is an interactive way of visualizing your Terraform plan

‍Terraform Visual is a tool that generates a visual representation of your terraform plan, making it easier to understand the structure and changes of your Terraform-managed infrastructure.

• inframap

  7 1,614 3.9 Go

  Read your tfstate or HCL to generate a graph specific for each provider, showing only the resources that are most important/relevant.

  

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.

• terraform-docs

  32 4,007 7.7 Go

  Generate documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats

  

‍Terraform-docs is a tool that automatically generates documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats, including markdown, JSON, and others. It's particularly useful for maintaining up-to-date documentation of your Terraform modules' inputs, outputs, providers, and resources.

• terraform-switcher

  9 1,300 2.6 Go

  A command line tool to switch between different versions of terraform (install with homebrew and more)

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

• terramate

  15 3,033 9.8 Go

  Terramate CLI is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) orchestration tool for Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Cloud Formation, CDK, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), and others.

  

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

• atlantis

  119 7,296 9.6 Go

  Terraform Pull Request Automation

  

Atlantis automates reviewing and deploying Terraform via pull requests, streamlining collaboration and ensuring consistency across Terraform deployments.

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