The latest articles on DEV Community by Owen Rumney (@owenrumney). https://dev.to/owenrumney https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F188762%2Fe648b31c-464b-417c-8dc9-c0e62075b596.png https://dev.to/owenrumney en Owen Rumney Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:51:36 +0000 https://dev.to/owenrumney/i-built-a-terraform-navigator-because-i-was-sick-of-looking-for-resources-16kj https://dev.to/owenrumney/i-built-a-terraform-navigator-because-i-was-sick-of-looking-for-resources-16kj <p>If you’ve ever worked on a large Terraform codebase, you’ll know this feeling, you need to edit a security group, but it’s buried somewhere in a 5,000-line, multi-file mess. You end up grepping, scrolling, guessing, or giving up.</p> <p>So I built Terraform Navigator, a VSCode extension that makes this pain go away.</p> <h2> 🎥 Quick Demo </h2> <p> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WveaWBbLl6A"> </iframe> </p> <h2> 🚀 What it does </h2> <p>The Terraform Navigator extension adds a treeview to VSCode that can either show the resources by file or by resource type... no more hunting for <code>aws_security_group</code> when you can just show them all in the treeview.</p> <p>You can:</p> <ul> <li>Quickly locate resources</li> <li>Show all the resources in a specific file</li> <li>With the tweak of a setting, you can include modules from <code>.terraform</code> </li> </ul> <h2> 🧩 Why I built it </h2> <p>I was looking for a resource in a large inherited Terraform project and while <code>Find</code> works perfectly well, it made me think there might just be a better way.</p> <p>The tool doesn't try and fix your Terraform layout, it just helps you navigate it.</p> <h2> 🧰 Give it a try </h2> <ul> <li><a href="//github.com/owenrumney/tf-nav">GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="//marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=owenrumney.tf-nav">VSCode Marketplace</a></li> <li><a href="//open-vsx.org/extension/owenrumney/tf-nav">OpenVSX</a></li> </ul> vscode terraform