How To Use Terraform like a Pro: Part 1

• terraformer

  109 11,925 7.2 Go

  CLI tool to generate terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Infrastructure to Code

  

That’s where Terraformer, a CLI tool built in Go language, comes into play. Terraformer imports the already created infrastructure as HashiCorp TF files and includes the .tfstate file. It also provides options for remote state sharing and exporting to specified bucket locations. It has a Terraform-like execution plan feature which allows you to see the blueprint of the configuration it’s going to pull before it executes on the existing infrastructure.

• tflint

  30 4,663 9.0 Go

  A Pluggable Terraform Linter

  

Either use TFLint in your laptop or a CI/CD pipeline to validate both the structure and content of the Terraform configuration.

• 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.

  

• goss

  13 5,461 7.9 Go

  Quick and Easy server testing/validation

  

Use GOSS, a YML-based open-source tool that can assert the test results (i.e., verifying if the SSH port 22 is closed or not).

• rspec-terraform-based

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Do unit testing using RSpechttps://github.com/bsnape/rspec-terraform-based tools, such as Serverspec and Inpec. You can also use a TDD approach, but I personally feel this slows down the development work.

• kitchen-terraform

  2 1,127 5.2 Ruby

  Test Kitchen plugins for testing Terraform configurations

  

For integration testing, use kitchen-framework, which DevOps engineers used with Chef in the past. Terratest, which can test anything that has API, is another option.

• SaaSHub

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