How to Quickly Improve Your Infrastructure as Code

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  • terragrunt

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

  • The resources view in Spacelift gives you greater visibility into each and every resource. With this deep insight into resources, DevOps are able to gain an understanding of the lifecycle of each resource managed by Spacelift and document it, regardless of the technology used — Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.

  • terraform

    Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

  • Generic IaC platforms do not provide any mechanisms to detect if your infrastructure is undergoing drift. Drift is a condition that represents the difference between the desired and the actual state of the infrastructure managed by your tool of choice – Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation or another. Drift can be caused by either or a combination of changes directly introduced by external actors – either humans or machines (scripts) or via the dependency of your resources on external data sources. In any case, drift is not good.

  • 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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  • Pulumi

    Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀

  • Generic IaC platforms do not provide any mechanisms to detect if your infrastructure is undergoing drift. Drift is a condition that represents the difference between the desired and the actual state of the infrastructure managed by your tool of choice – Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation or another. Drift can be caused by either or a combination of changes directly introduced by external actors – either humans or machines (scripts) or via the dependency of your resources on external data sources. In any case, drift is not good.

  • OPA (Open Policy Agent)

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

  • Spacelift puts policy-as-code in the center of its value proposition and builds a consistent, robust policy framework on top of Open Policy Agent. Apart from providing a comprehensive automated change review and ensuring compliance of your Terraform changes, Spacelift uses the same approach to allow you to declare rules around the account and project access, handling push notifications, starting runs and triggering tasks, and creating relationships between projects.

  • aws-cloudformation-coverage-roadmap

    The AWS CloudFormation Public Coverage Roadmap

  • Generic IaC platforms do not provide any mechanisms to detect if your infrastructure is undergoing drift. Drift is a condition that represents the difference between the desired and the actual state of the infrastructure managed by your tool of choice – Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation or another. Drift can be caused by either or a combination of changes directly introduced by external actors – either humans or machines (scripts) or via the dependency of your resources on external data sources. In any case, drift is not good.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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