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Developing Terraform Code Efficiently
Terraform’s popularity and open source licensing model have spawned a very active ecosystem. Many open source and commercial tools and resources are available that extend its functionality and capabilities. An excellent resource is the curated list of Terraform resources at https://github.com/shuaibiyy/awesome-terraform. This chapter highlights four of the most common and practical tools to help you write and develop Terraform code more efficiently.
In this chapter, we cover the following topics:
- Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Terraform Extension
- tflint
- Checkov
- Terragrunt
Technical requirements
In this chapter, you need to install each of the tools discussed. We provide references on how to do so. The ...
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