Awesome Terraform

A curated list of resources on HashiCorp's Terraform. Your contributions are welcome!

Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve production infrastructure. It is an open source tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

Contents

• Legend
• Official Resources
• Community
• Books
• Learning and Studying
• Apps
• Tutorials and Blog Posts
  • Beginner Guides
  • Writing Custom Providers
  • How-To
  • Multi-Environment Configuration
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Miscellaneous
• Community Modules
• Self-Hosted Registries
• Managed Registries
• Providers
  • Hashicorp supported providers
  • Vendor supported providers
  • Community providers
• Testing
• Tools
  • CI
  • VS Code Extensions
• Libraries
• Boilerplates

Legend

• Not compatible with terraform >= 0.12 :ghost:
• Abandoned :skull:
• Monetized :heavy_dollar_sign:

Official Resources

• Hashicorp Terraform Blog
• Introduction to Terraform
• Terraform Documentation
• Terraform learn

Community

• weekly.tf - Terraform Weekly Newsletter - Weekly newsletter covering Terraform news, open-source projects, announcements, and discussions.
• Complete Terraform documentation as PDF files (Updated nightly) :skull:
• Terraform AWS Modules + meta-configurations repository
• Terraform Bug Tracker
• Terraform Cheatsheet
• Terraform Community Modules
• Terraform Twitter Community
• Terraform Discuss
• Terraform Provider/Module Registry
• Terraform PDF Doc :skull:
• Terraform Roadmap
• The Ultimate Terraform Cheatsheet for DevOps Engineers
• Terragrunt Reference Architecture :skull:
• The Claude Agent Skill for Terraform and OpenTofu - testing, modules, CI/CD, and production patterns - Claude Code skill for Terraform and OpenTofu — testing, module design, CI/CD workflows, and production patterns.
• awesome-terraform-compliance - Curated list of tools, frameworks, and resources for Terraform compliance and security.
• Language-specific communities:
  • Telegram (Ukrainian speak community)

Books

• Big Little Book On Terraform
• Bootstrapping Microservices with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, Second Edition
• Deep-Dive Terraform on Azure
• Getting Started with Terraform, 2nd ed.
• HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide
• IaC starting with Terraform (Korean)
• Infrastructure as Code
• Patterns and Practices for Infrastructure as Code: With examples in Python and Terraform
• Terraform Best Practices - open-source ebook
• Terraform Cookbook
• Terraform for Ops e-book
• Terraform in Action
• Terraform in Depth
• Terraform: Up & Running, 3rd ed.
• The Terraform Book

Learning and Studying

• Terraform Academy - Interactive Terraform / IaC learning platform with hands-on labs, certification prep (HashiCorp, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps), AI coaching, and progress tracking. See also the SRE Pro Tips blog and the mobile/PWA apps below.
• compliance.tf docs - Free Terraform implementations of SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, and 35+ other compliance controls — open reference for writing compliant infrastructure code.

Apps

Mobile, desktop, and PWA apps for learning and working with Terraform on the go.

• Terraform Academy — iOS - Native iOS app for the Terraform Academy interactive learning platform. Hands-on labs, certification prep (HashiCorp, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps), AI coaching, and progress sync across devices.
• Terraform Academy — Android - Native Android app for the Terraform Academy learning platform with the same labs, cert prep, and AI coaching as the iOS and web versions.
• Terraform Academy — PWA / Web App - Installable Progressive Web App version of Terraform Academy. Works offline, installs to home screen on any platform, and syncs progress with the mobile apps.

Tutorials and Blog Posts

Beginner Guides

• A Comprehensive Guide to Terraform - Series of blog posts from the author of "Terraform: Up & Running" that guide the reader from beginning with Terraform to using it in the real world.
• Using Terraform for Cloud Deployments - Part 1 - Provisioning an EC2 instance.
• Hello, world: The Fargate/Terraform tutorial I wish I had - Blog post describing setting up an ECS Fargate cluster from scratch
• Terraform Security Guide - Blog post describing security best practices when working with Terraform
• Building a SaaS API? Don't Forget Your Terraform Provider - Why you should write a terraform provider
• Complete Terraform Course in French (Free) – A comprehensive and free course in French to master Terraform, from beginner to advanced usage, with hands-on examples and best practices.

Writing Custom Providers

• Creating custom terraform providers - Guide for creating custom providers.
• Writing a Terraform provider - Guide for creating custom providers.
• Writing Custom Providers - Official documentation for creating custom providers.
• Terraform Provider Code generation - Guide to generating a terraform provider from an OpenAPI specification (Vendor Supported)

How-To

• How To Write OPA for Terraform - How to use Open Policy Agent to evaluate and enforce policy on your Terraform plans
• Deploying Discourse with Terraform - Shows how Terraform can create a running instance of Discourse on DigitalOcean in one command.
• Deploying Django to AWS ECS with Terraform - Looks at how to use Terraform to spin up the required AWS infrastructure for running a Django app on ECS.
• Easily Deploy A Seneca Microservice to ECS with Wercker and Terraform: Part I, II & III - Illustrates how Terraform can be incorporated into a microservice deployment pipeline.
• Terraform for a Highly Available VPN between AWS and Azure - Terraform code to deploy a highly available VPN between AWS and Azure.
• Terraforming 1Password - How 1Password migrated from CloudFormation to Terraform.
• Tutorial: How to Use Terraform to Deploy OpenStack Workloads - Illustrates how easy it is to use the OpenStack Terraform provider to deplo