terraboard is a free, open source cloud infrastructure management project written in Go and released under Apache-2.0. It has 2,008 GitHub stars, 169 forks and 27 open issues, and was last pushed 3 months ago. On this registry it ranks #58 of 70 tracked projects in Cloud Infrastructure Management, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available.

Terraboard

🌍 📋 A web dashboard to inspect Terraform States

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Website: https://terraboard.io


Caution: Terraboard's Docker registry was migrated from Dockerhub to GHCR! All new tags will be now pushed here. You can still access to old tags on the legacy Dockerhub repository.

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What is it?

Terraboard is a web dashboard to visualize and query Terraform states. It currently features:

  • an overview page listing the most recently updated state files with their activity
  • a state page with state file details, including versions and resource attributes
  • a search interface to query resources by type, name or attributes
  • a diff interface to compare state between versions

It currently supports several remote state backend providers:

Terraboard is now able to handle multiple buckets/providers configuration! 🥳 Check configuration section for more details.

Overview

The overview presents all the state files in the S3 bucket, by most recent modification date.

Screenshot Overview

Search

The search view allows to find resources by various criteria.

Screenshot Search

State

The state view presents details of a Terraform state at a given version.

Screenshot State

Compare

From the state view, you can compare the current state version with another version.

Screenshot Compare

Requirements

Independently of the location of your statefiles, Terraboard needs to store an internal version of its dataset. For this purpose it requires a PostgreSQL database. Data resiliency is not paramount though as this dataset can be rebuilt upon your statefiles at anytime.

AWS S3 (state) + DynamoDB (lock)
  • A versioned S3 bucket name with one or more Terraform states, named with a .tfstate suffix
  • AWS credentials with the following IAM permissions over the bucket:
    • s3:GetObject
    • s3:ListBucket
    • s3:ListBucketVersions
    • s3:GetObjectVersion
  • If you want to retrieve lock states from a dynamoDB table, you need to make sure the provided AWS credentials have dynamodb:Scan access to that table.
Terraform Cloud
  • Account on Terraform Cloud
  • Existing organization
  • Token assigned to an organization

Configuration

Terraboard currently supports configuration in three different ways:

  1. Environment variables (only usable for single provider configuration)
  2. CLI parameters (only usable for single provider configuration)
  3. Configuration file (YAML). A configuration file example can be found in the root directory of this repository and in the test/ subdirectory.

Important: all flags/environment variables related to the providers settings aren't compatible with multi-provider configuration! Instead, you must use the YAML config file to be able to configure multiples buckets/providers. YAML config is able to load values from environments variables.

The precedence of configurations is as described below.

Multiple buckets/providers

In order for Terraboard to import states from multiples buckets or even providers, you must use the YAML configuration method:

  • Set the CONFIG_FILE environment variable or the -c/--config-file flag to point to a valid YAML config file.
  • In the YAML file, specify your desired providers configuration. For example with two MinIO buckets (using the AWS provider with compatible mode):
# Needed since MinIO doesn't support versioning or locking
provider:
  no-locks: true
  no-versioning: true

aws:
  - endpoint: http://minio:9000/
    region: ${AWS_DEFAULT_REGION}
    s3:
      - bucket: test-bucket
        force-path-style: true
        file-extension:
          - .tfstate

  - endpoint: http://minio:9000/
    region: eu-west-1
    s3:
      - bucket: test-bucket2
        force-path-style: true
        file-extension:
          - .tfstate

In the case of AWS, don't forget to set the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables.

That's it! Terraboard will now fetch these two buckets on DB refresh. You can also mix providers like AWS and Gitlab or anything else. You can find a ready-to-use Docker example with two MinIO buckets in the test/multiple-minio-buckets/ sub-folder.

Available parameters

Application Options
  • -V, --version Display version.
  • -c, --config-file Config File path
    • Env: CONFIG_FILE
General Provider Options
  • --no-versioning Disable versioning support from Terraboard (useful for S3 compatible providers like MinIO)
    • Env: TERRABOARD_NO_VERSIONING
    • Yaml: provider.no-versioning
  • --no-locks Disable locks support from Terraboard (useful for S3 compatible providers like MinIO)
    • Env: TERRABOARD_NO_LOCKS
    • Yaml: provider.no-locks
Logging Options
  • -l, --log-level Set log level ('debug', 'info', 'warn', 'error', 'fatal', 'panic').
    • Env: TERRABOARD_LOG_LEVEL
    • Yaml: log.level
  • --log-format Set log format ('plain', 'json').
    • Env: *TERRAB

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Frequently asked questions

Is terraboard free to use?

terraboard is open source under the Apache-2.0 licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does terraboard do?

:earth_africa: :clipboard: A web dashboard to inspect Terraform States

What is terraboard written in?

terraboard is primarily written in Go. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/camptocamp/terraboard, and it has 2,008 GitHub stars.