GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: archived

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14559 stars · 1841 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Terraformer is a Go CLI tool that generates Terraform configuration (tf/) and tfstate files from existing cloud infrastructure, effectively performing 'reverse Terraform' (infrastructure to code). It supports many providers including GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, GitHub, and various monitoring services.

Use cases

• generate terraform files from existing infrastructure
• import existing cloud resources into terraform state
• reverse engineer terraform configs from gcp project
• convert aws infrastructure to terraform code
• bootstrap terraform for an unmanaged cloud environment
• export kubernetes resources as terraform hcl

When to choose

• you need to bring existing infrastructure under Terraform management
• you want to generate baseline HCL/tfstate from a live cloud account
• you need multi-provider import coverage (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.)

When to avoid

• you need ongoing support or security patches - the project was archived and deprecated as of March 2026
• you want actively maintained import tooling - consider alternatives like terraform's built-in import blocks or community forks
• you need Cloudflare support - it is documented as broken

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cli-tool · maturity abandoned

infrastructure-as-code cloud developer-tools cli infrastructure-as-code cloud-computing developer-tools windows cli go terraform reverse-terraform hcl gcp aws azure kubernetes deprecated archived devops linux macos

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