I've been using Terraform for 5 years now and all the articles I read are becoming repetitive. The same tools over and over.
This is the 5 tools I recently discovered that helped me a lot:
Infracost
In this recent post, I've detailed why FinOps is changing and many strategies to save cost. Along this comes a great tool that brought me great cloud cost save: Infracost. It can be integrated anywhere and it's free.
Brainboard
Brainboard is a great tool to work with Terraform visually. I've also had the chance to test Brainboard's AI solution first hand and the results were pretty spectacular.
eagle-eye
eagle-eye is still in beta testing but it's a great promise for AWS cloud infrastructure visualization. The diagram generated can be used locally or within a CI/CD pipeline.
Terrascan
Although the name “Terrascan” leads one to believe that it’s Terraform-specific, it actually works for many IaC providers. Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Cloudformation, and more are supported by Terrascan thanks to its large set of pre-written policies. Of course, you can write your own policies as well for custom use cases. Terrascan integrates with several CI/CD tools and is extremely flexible when designing your pipelines.
Checkov
Checkov is very similar to Terrascan, but it uses a Python policy-as-code framework instead of the Rego syntax found in OPA. Many engineers may find this more approachable as Python is one of the most popular programming languages today.
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