Terraform Best Practices for Better Infrastructure Management

• Blog-Technical-Content

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  Technical content from the Spacelift blog articles.

  

  Our primary entry point is main.tf, and in simple use cases, we can add all our resources there. We define our variables in variables.tf and assign values to them in terraform.tfvars. We use the file outputs.tf to declare output values. You can find a similar example project structure here.

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• tflint

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  A Pluggable Terraform Linter

  

  tflint – Terraform linter for errors that the plan can’t catch.

• tfenv

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  Terraform version manager

  

  tfenv – Terraform version manager

• checkov

  57 7,173 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 – Terraform static analysis tool

• terratest

  48 7,536 8.3 Go

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

  

  terratest – Go library that helps you with automated tests for Terraform

• pre-commit-terraform

  15 3,235 8.7 Shell

  pre-commit git hooks to take care of Terraform configurations 🇺🇦

  pre-commit-terraform – Pre-commit git hooks for automation

• terraform-docs

  33 4,290 8.1 Go

  Generate documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats

  

  terraform-docs – Quickly generate docs from modules

• atlantis

  122 7,855 9.8 Go

  Terraform Pull Request Automation

  

  atlantis – Workflow for collaborating on Terraform projects

• terraform-cost-estimation

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  Anonymized, secure, and free Terraform cost estimation based on Terraform plan (0.12+) or Terraform state (any version)

  terraform-cost-estimation – Free cost estimation service for your plans. Check out also this list that includes a lot more awesome terraform tools.

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