Terraformer
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CLI tool to generate terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Infrastructure to Code
In other words: “reverse terraform”.
I was quite excited to add this project to my tool belt, as it can save a lot of
time with scaffolding and terraform import commands.
Then Claude Code, once again, surprised me.
It turns out there’s absolutely no need to adopt terraformer if you have a
superb agent available and a few cents/dollars to spare.
Claude can figure out which CLI arguments to pass to aws, az, etc. to list
all relevant cloud resources. Then it can generate / scaffold a basic set of
Terraform files to manage them1. And then it can craft an one-off shell or
python script to import them all in terraform.
Easy. Quick. Painless.
The interesting part is that I had initially asked Claude to explicitly use terraformer to do so, but it turned out to be more complicated / less efficient than having the agent perform the task directly.
I am sorry if you were expecting a terraformer tutorial.
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You’ll need to refactor these later for maintainability. ↩︎