hashicorp/terraform
★ 49,984 stars
Covered in week 2026-W20 · the 2026-05 report
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
What terraform is
Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.
From the repository README · read it on GitHub →
Transcript
Spacelift charges $175 a month just to manage your infrastructure as code. Terraform does it free. With 48,000 stars on GitHub, Terraform lets you define your entire cloud setup across AWS, Azure, GCP, and 3,000-plus providers in simple declarative config files. You spin up servers, databases, and networks with one plan and apply command. No clicking through consoles, no manual drift. Teams at every major company use it to version-control their infrastructure like application code. Star it if this saved you money.