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

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Show HN: GitHub Org Audit Tool | Nov 2022
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And here comes Terraformer: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer It doesn't import anything, but generates the .tf files for you.

Disclaimer: I have used that, but not for GitHub.
Show HN: Generate code and diagrams from live infrastructure, AWS/Azure/GCP | Oct 2022
Seems like a potentially useful tool. Another related approach is https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer ("reverse Terraform"), which might be better if your end goal is to build Terraform scripts for existing infra.

However I like the idea of using these visualizations to grok or monitor infra; say as a Platform or Security engineering team, you might want to keep an eye on specific classes of resource like storage buckets, load balancers, etc.

Show HN: Terragen.dev – Automagically Generate Terraform for AWS | Jun 2022
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> I was really hoping this was "automatically generate Terraform FROM AWS" to import existing resources.

You might be interested in Terraformer. https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
Terraform should have remained stateless | May 2022
I haven't found a good way to handle resources that were created outside TF. Like a EC2 instance running in staging to debug an issue, but then forgotten about. They don't exist in TF state or config so TF simply ignores them.

I've tried terraformer[1], but I can't tell how well maintained that is (it failed to get my creds, I had to modify the code to fix it, and then it crashed with an obscure error).

Anyone have a good approach?

1. https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer

DevOps Engineer Crash Course – Section 1 | Aug 2021
I wasn't aware of terraformer[1] - anyone have any experience with it?

[1] https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer

Show HN: Digger.dev – A PaaS that generates Terraform, in your AWS account | Jul 2021
How does this compare to https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer -- looks like it is more continuously updating and user friendly?
Terraform 0.15 General Availability | Apr 2021
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For the latter: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
A Month of Terraform | Nov 2020
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Check out Terraformer: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer

This has been instrumental in importing and generating configs from existing infrastructure.
A Month of Terraform | Nov 2020
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Yes! Its great to capture a bespoke configuration in code. You may already know this but there is a tool called terraformer that has limited support for doing just this: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer