Company
Date Published
April 5, 2023
Author
Derek Morgan
Word count
3131
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

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.