Terraform Best Practices for Better Infrastructure Management

• Blog-Technical-Content

  5 42 3.4 HCL

  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.

• tflint

  30 4,572 8.9 Go

  A Pluggable Terraform Linter

  

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

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• tfenv

  22 4,310 5.8 Shell

  Terraform version manager

  

tfenv – Terraform version manager

• checkov

  54 6,492 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

  46 7,330 8.7 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

  13 2,985 8.7 Shell

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

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

• terraform-docs

  32 3,993 7.7 Go

  Generate documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats

  

terraform-docs – Quickly generate docs from modules

• WorkOS

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  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.

  

• atlantis

  119 7,264 9.6 Go

  Terraform Pull Request Automation

  

atlantis – Workflow for collaborating on Terraform projects

• terraform-cost-estimation

  3 663 2.2 jq

  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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