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Author : Nishtha Malhotra<\/a>, Associate Engineer – CloudDevOps<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original Published Date: October 11, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n

Automation<\/a>, <\/span>DevOps<\/a>, <\/span>Terraform<\/a>, <\/span>Terraformer<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n
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Problem Statement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

IAC or Infrastructure as Code<\/a> allows you to build, change, and manage<\/strong> your infrastructure through coding instead of manual processes. The configuration files are created according to your infrastructure specifications and these configurations can be edited and distributed securely within an organization.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Infrastructure as a Code<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

We all know Terraform is a popular infrastructure as code tool that lets you build, change, and version cloud and on-prem resources safely and efficiently<\/strong>. Now, many organisations have large footprints of Infrastructure on Cloud which was created manually. As a part of organization-wide modernization strategy, organization might want to bring those Infrastructure pieces also to be maintained using Infrastructure as a Code tool. Now if the number of resources are less, in that case you can simply write the code and import the infrastructure state into statefile. But if the number of resources are really high then it would become really challenging to write the code of that existing infrastructure with all the required dependencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Terraformer<\/a> can address this challenge by automatically generating terraform files from the existing infrastructure with all the dependencies. In this blog I am going to explain how to setup and use Terraformer utility to automatically generate Terraform files for AWS Cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we move into setup, let us look at some more details around Terraformer utility and its capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Terraformer?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Terraformer is an open-source CLI (Command Line Interface) tool from Google Cloud Platform to generate files from existing infrastructure. In short performing the reverse of what Terraform is designed to do\u200b that involves creating Terraform files from pre-existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capabilities<\/h5>\n\n\n\n