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24 alternatives to Terrabook – Replit for Infrastructure

Hi HN, one of the founders here. We were thinking hard on what would lower the entry barrier / smoothen the learning curve for infrastructure. It's got to be easy to build so something visual probably; and it's got to be "real" so perhaps some kind of infra-as-code underneath. We experimented a lot with the low-code angle (the most recent OpsFlow which we got tons of feedback on from HN - thank you!!) And then it hit us. With python, there's a huge difference in ease of use between a Jupyter notebook and locally run python code, even though the code is the same. So we don't even need to…

Terrabook is a visual infrastructure-as-code tool that uses blocks of pre-filled Terraform code to lower the barrier to entry for building infrastructure. Designed for developers and infrastructure learners, it… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Terrabook – Replit for Infrastructure launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Terrabook▲194

    A modern IDE for your AWS account

    2022 · terrabook.io · its alternatives →

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    The self-serve infrastructure catalog

    2024 · launchflow.com · its alternatives →

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    GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.

    2014 · gitbook.io · its alternatives →

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    Digger is enterprise-ready, self-hostable infrastructure tooling. Terraform CI/CD, drift detection, PR automation, and state management. Open source DevOps for cloud-native teams.

    2021 · diggerdev.com · its alternatives →

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    The diagramming tool for developers

    2023 · d2lang.com · its alternatives →

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    Your team's go-to for technical knowledge management

    2023 · gitbook.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7TA
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    Automagically generate infrastructure-as-code on AWS

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Nodebook - Multi-Lang Web REPL + CLI Code runner. Contribute to netgusto/nodebook development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10TA
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    Hi HN, we're Lucas and Lucas, the authors of Layerform (https://github.com/ergomake/layerform). Layerform is an open-source tool for setting up development environments using plain .tf files. We allow each engineer to create their own "staging" environment and reuse infrastructure. Whenever engineers run layerform spawn, we use plain .tf files to give them their own "staging" environment that looks just like production. Many teams have a single (or too few) staging environments, which developers have to queue to use. This is particularly a problem when a system is large,…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12IM

    Hi. I made a video crash course about Terraform 0.12. It's one of four I want to do. I would love to show you what I've made so far and get your feedback and thoughts. The course is financially free but does require an email to signup (a limitation of the platform I'm using): https://www.thecloud.coach/terraform-crash-course Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Digger▲318

    Open source infrastructure as code management tool

    2023 · digger.dev · its alternatives →

  14. 14WS

    I’ve been in the MLOps space for ~10 years, and data is still the hardest unsolved open problem. Code is versioned using Git, data is stored somewhere else, and context often lives in a 3rd location like Slack or GDocs. This is why we built XetHub, a platform that enables teams to treat data like code, using Git. Unlike Git LFS, we don’t just store the files. We use content-defined chunking and Merkle Trees to dedupe against everything in history. This allows small changes in large files to be stored compactly. Read more here:…

    2022 · xethub.com · its alternatives →

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    Digger is an open source IaC orchestration tool. Digger allows you to run IaC in your existing CI pipeline ⚡️ - GitHub - diggerhq/digger: Digger is an open source IaC orchestration tool. Digger allows you to run IaC in your existing CI pipeline ⚡️

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16AI

    Hello Hacker News! We're Roxane, Julien, Pierre, Mawen and Stephane from Anyshift.io. We are building a GitHub app (and platform) that detects Terraform complex dependencies (hardcoded values, intricated-modules, shadow IT…), flags potential breakages, and provides a Terraform ‘Superplan’ for your changes. To do that we create and maintain a digital twin of your infrastructure using Neo4j. - 2 min demo : https://app.guideflow.com/player/dkd2en3t9r - try it now: https://app.anyshift.io/ (5min setup). We experienced how dealing with IaC/Terraform is…

    2025 · app.anyshift.io · its alternatives →

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    Deliver infrastructure as code

    2021 · developer.hashicorp.com · its alternatives →

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    Nodebook - Multi-Lang Web REPL + CLI Code runner. Contribute to netgusto/nodebook development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We have been working on Multy, an open-source[1] tool that enables developers to deploy and switch to any cloud - AWS, Azure and GCP for now. We realized that, even when using Terraform, writing infrastructure code is very different for each cloud provider. This means changing clouds or deploying the same infrastructure in multiple clouds requires rewriting the same thing multiple times. And even though most core resources have the same functionality, developers need to learn a new provider and all its nuances when choosing a new cloud. This is why we built Multy. Multy is currently…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20TD
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    Visually build and manage cloud infrastructures

    2021 · brainboard.co · its alternatives →

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    See cost estimates for Terraform right in your editor

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A diagramming tool for systems, like software architecture

    2020 · d2lang.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24SF

    Hi HN! We are the team behind Spacelift (https://spacelift.io/). Spacelift is the CI/CD for infrastructure-as-code, be it Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation or Ansible (coming soon), and policy as code. It enables collaboration, automates manual work and compliance, and lets teams customize and automate their workflows. Here’s what you can do with Spacelift - Build sophisticated Git-based workflows - Use Open Policy Agent to declare rules around your infrastructure, access control, state changes, and more - Author and maintain reusable modules for your organization; we…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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