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Re:Show HN: Terragen.dev – Automagically Generate Terraform ... by web007 on Friday June 10, 2022 @11:18AM (#31695378)
This project seems to wholesale ignore "terraform modules" in it's claims about reusability and modularity. Most of the problems it solves are already solved.

The description and marketing are very mixed. It generates bespoke Terraform based on... vague descriptions? "Give me a postgres DB" seems to be the level of input from what I can tell. It then goes off to create one and give you the TF it used? I was really hoping this was "automatically generate Terraform FROM AWS" to import existing resources.

This sounds like the SaaS-ified version of Gruntwork.io, where they give you best practices templates and leave it up to you to fill in the particulars.

Re:Show HN: Terragen.dev – Automagically Generate Terraform ... by shaunofthedev on Friday June 10, 2022 @11:40AM (#31695694)
> I was really hoping this was "automatically generate Terraform FROM AWS" to import existing resources.

You might be interested in Terraformer. https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer

Re:Show HN: Terragen.dev – Automagically Generate Terraform ... by skyzyx on Sunday June 12, 2022 @01:28PM (#31716347)
Even Google hasn’t really solved this problem very well. A lot of Terraformer resources are incomplete.