# cycloidio/terracognita

Reads from existing public and private cloud providers (reverse Terraform) and generates your infrastructure as code on Terraform configuration

Repository: https://github.com/cycloidio/terracognita
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/terracognita
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: devops-tools, terraform, infrastructure-as-code, tfstate, devops, golang, cloud, aws, go, google-cloud-platform, azure, reverse-engineering, cycloid, gcp, azure-devops, hybrid-cloud, iac, iac-terraform, vmware
Last push: 2025-09-02T12:57:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 41/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 40, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2761, "days_push": 365, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2385, forks 170 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:42.605374+00:00)

## What it is
TerraCognita is a Go CLI tool that reverse-engineers existing cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, Azure, and VMware vSphere into Terraform HCL configuration and/or Terraform state files. It automates IaC adoption by generating Terraform code from live cloud resources using community Terraform providers.

## Use cases
- generate terraform code from existing aws infrastructure
- import current cloud resources into terraform state
- reverse engineer cloud infrastructure to hcl
- adopt infrastructure as code for an existing gcp project
- convert azure resources to terraform configuration
- bootstrap terraform for legacy vmware vsphere environments

## When to choose
- you have existing cloud infrastructure not managed by Terraform and want to bring it under IaC
- you need to generate a Terraform state file to start managing resources with Terraform
- you use AWS, GCP, Azure, or vSphere and want automated HCL generation

## When to avoid
- you are starting infrastructure from scratch with no existing cloud resources
- you need providers or resource types not yet supported by Terracognita
- you want a full drift-detection or policy-as-code solution rather than one-time import

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: infrastructure-as-code, cloud, developer-tools, deployment
- domain: infrastructure-as-code, cloud-computing
- platform: windows, cli, go
- tags: terraform, reverse-terraform, iac-generation, aws, gcp, azure, vmware, tfstate, devops, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- cycloidio/terracognita (main) score 41

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:42.605374+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:34:38.150569+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cycloidio/terracognita (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:42.605374+00:00, sha 0e5af3d60f2a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.