How To Use Custom Tools To Complement Terraform

The text discusses various tools used in conjunction with Terraform, an Infrastructure-as-Code tool. These include the native Terraform Console for testing expressions; Visual Studio Code as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE); TFLint and Open Policy Agent for linting and security respectively; Terrascan, Checkov, and tfsec for detecting vulnerabilities in IaC scripts; Driftctl for identifying resources that have drifted from the desired state; Infracost for estimating cloud costs; Terraformer and Pike for generating Terraform code from existing infrastructure or IAM permissions respectively; Terraform Docs for automatically generating documentation; and TFSwitch, Terramate, and Terragrunt for managing multiple Terraform versions, stacks, and modules. Additionally, Atlantis, Terraform Cloud, and Spacelift are mentioned as CI/CD tools for automating Terraform deployments.