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

15 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 4 stories, 11 comments · first 2019-05-02 · latest 2026-09-22

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  1. https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/terraformer shutdown earlier this year, but this tool might help others to at least reverse-engineer their Github, Gitlab Gitea, Forgejo into infrastructure-as-code.
    comment by _mig5 · 2026-09-22 · in Heckle: Converting Git forges into Terraform/OpenTofu
  2. …had to reverse engineer our AWS stack into .tf modules. Shoutout to the Waze team for creating it! https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer We built out a large serverless stack on AWS, and we got a request from higher ups to…
    comment by hoofhearted · 2025-02-05 · in Using Terraform Workspace for AWS multi account architectures
  3. 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.
    comment by playingalong · 2022-11-11 · in Show HN: GitHub Org Audit Tool
  4. 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…
    comment by theptip · 2022-10-04 · in Show HN: Generate code and diagrams from live infrastructure, AWS/Azure/GCP
  5. …generate Terraform FROM AWS" to import existing resources. You might be interested in Terraformer. https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
    comment by shaunofthedev · 2022-06-10 · in Show HN: Terragen.dev – Automagically Generate Terraform for AWS
  6. …the code to fix it, and then it crashed with an obscure error). Anyone have a good approach? 1. https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
    comment by 8organicbits · 2022-05-28 · in Terraform should have remained stateless
  7. I wasn't aware of terraformer[1] - anyone have any experience with it? [1] https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
    comment by e12e · 2021-08-15 · in DevOps Engineer Crash Course – Section 1
  8. How does this compare to https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer -- looks like it is more continuously updating and user friendly?
    comment by awwaiid · 2021-07-21 · in Show HN: Digger.dev – A PaaS that generates Terraform, in your AWS account
  9. For the latter: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
    comment by mwarkentin · 2021-04-15 · in Terraform 0.15 General Availability
  10. Check out Terraformer: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer This has been instrumental in importing and generating configs from existing infrastructure.
    comment by rwoll · 2020-11-23 · in A Month of Terraform
  11. …know this but there is a tool called terraformer that has limited support for doing just this: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
    comment by pm90 · 2020-11-22 · in A Month of Terraform