terraformer mit Homebrew, chocolatey, MacPorts, Nix, scoop, winget installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• terraformer

Projektgeschichte

The repository was created in May 2019 and the README identifies the tool as a Waze SRE project, not an official Google product. Its core idea was to inspect already-deployed resources and generate Terraform `.tf`, JSON, and `tfstate` files so teams could bring existing infrastructure under infrastructure-as-code management.

Terraformer grew into a broad multi-provider importer. The README lists major cloud providers such as Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, AliCloud, and IBM Cloud, as well as Kubernetes, GitHub, GitLab, Datadog, PagerDuty, Vault, Okta, Auth0, and many smaller provider targets.

The project is now deprecated. The README states that as of March 16, 2026, the repository was archived, made read-only, and would receive no further updates, security patches, or support.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Terraformer became one of the better-known tools for bootstrapping Terraform from brownfield environments, especially for teams inheriting manually created cloud resources. Its large GitHub star count, broad provider list, and availability through Homebrew, Chocolatey, MacPorts, Nix, Scoop, and winget show unusually wide package-manager reach for a Terraform-adjacent CLI.

Homebrew analytics show thousands of installs over the previous year, higher than the other Terraform helper tools in this batch. The archived status changes its adoption profile: it remains important historically and for existing workflows, but new users must weigh the lack of maintenance and security support.

Wie es verwendet wird

The primary command is `terraformer import [provider]`, with flags for resources, regions, filters, output format, generated path layout, state storage, and optional remote state upload. Users can import all resources, exclude services, filter by IDs or attributes, or create and edit a plan file before importing.

Terraformer uses Terraform providers and was designed so newly supported resources could be picked up by upgrading the relevant Terraform providers. The README also notes Terraform 0.13 support and directs older Terraform 0.11 users to v0.7.9.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, Terraformer is the heavyweight entry in this batch: a large Go CLI with many provider integrations, wide package-manager distribution, and a clear lifecycle story from popular brownfield-import tool to archived dependency that may need replacement or pinning.

Zeitleiste

• 2019: GitHub repository created and publicized as a Waze SRE reverse-Terraform tool.
• 2022-2025: 0.8.x releases continued through v0.8.30.
• 2026: Repository archived on March 16 and declared deprecated in the README.
• 2026: Homebrew continues to package v0.8.30.

Related projects

• Terraform providers are the underlying integration layer Terraformer uses to generate configuration for supported services.
• Terraform import and provider-specific import documentation are adjacent workflows for bringing existing resources under Terraform.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
• https://api.github.com/repos/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer/releases
• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/terraformer.json
• https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer#readme