Install yor with Homebrew, Nix

Project links

• Homepage
• Repository
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

• yor

Project history

Yor was publicly launched on 2021-05-27, shortly after Palo Alto Networks acquired Bridgecrew. Palo Alto's announcement framed it as an open-source IaC tag-and-trace tool for developer workflows, with local CLI, pre-commit, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD usage.

The README describes Yor as an open-source tool that adds informative and consistent tags across IaC frameworks, with built-in support for Terraform, CloudFormation, and Serverless Frameworks, plus custom taggers, skip annotations, dry runs, and Git-based tags.

Adoption history

Yor's adoption story is tied to cloud governance rather than app deployment. Help Net Security covered it as a tool for traceability and auditability, noting that organizations can run it retroactively across infrastructure resources or build it into CI/CD so ownership and other tags come from IaC and git history.

Packaging followed developer workflow channels: Homebrew, Chocolatey, Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps snippets, and pre-commit hooks are all documented entry points.

How it is used

The common command is `yor tag --directory terraform/`, with options to recurse or not, include or skip tag groups, target specific frameworks, add simple custom tags, preview with dry-run, write JSON output, and skip directories or resource types.

The most package-relevant mode is automated CI: Yor can run as a GitHub Action or pre-commit hook that modifies IaC files so trace and owner tags travel from source repositories into provisioned cloud resources.

Why package nerds care

Yor matters because it packages cloud tagging policy as a repeatable source-code transformation. It is a small CLI, but its runtime effect is on Terraform and other IaC files that later become cloud inventory, billing, security, and incident-response metadata.

It is also an example of DevSecOps tooling where the package manager is part of governance distribution: install the CLI in CI, pin the hook/action version, and every repository can apply the same tagging logic.

Timeline

• 2021-05-27: Palo Alto Networks announces Yor as an open-source automated IaC tag-and-trace tool.
• 2021-05-27: Security press covers Yor as an IaC traceability and auditability tool built by Bridgecrew.
• 2020s: Yor documents usage as CLI, Docker image, GitHub Action, Azure DevOps step, and pre-commit hook.

Related projects

• Bridgecrew and Prisma Cloud/Cortex Cloud are the commercial ecosystem around the project.
• bridgecrewio/yor-action is the GitHub Action integration.
• Terraform, CloudFormation, Serverless Framework, Kubernetes, pre-commit, Docker, and GitHub Actions are major adjacent technologies in documented workflows.

Sources

• https://github.com/bridgecrewio/yor
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bridgecrewio/yor/main/README.md
• https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/05/27/yor-tags-iac-resources/
• https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2021/05/yor-automated-iac-tag-and-trace/
• https://yor.io/1.Welcome/welcome.html