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Life & fun · October 24, 2023

Togomak – declarative pipeline orchestrator based on HCL and Terraform

Togomak is a command line tool that runs pipelines locally and on the cloud using HashiCorp Configuration Language with a Terraform-like architecture. I am a DevOps engineer and I wanted to build something that is CI/CD provider agnostic - something like GNU make, which I could plug into any provider of choice and not have to rewrite anything while retaining its rich features. I love Terraform and its ecosystem, so I guess I borrowed a huge chunk of their design. Togomak makes parts of your pipeline reusable, by making it a Togomak module, just like Terraform modules. It also gives you…

Togomak – declarative pipeline orchestrator based on HCL and Terraform launched on October 24, 2023 with 55 votes, #1,233 of 4,393 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

In plain words

Togomak is a command-line tool for running pipelines locally and in the cloud using HashiCorp Configuration Language with a Terraform-like architecture. Built for DevOps engineers, it works with any CI/CD provider without requiring rewrites, similar to GNU make. Togomak enables reusable pipeline components through modules, supports HCL functions, loop expressions, templating, and user input customization. It is designed to be provider-agnostic while maintaining rich pipeline features inspired by Terraform's design.

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From the sources

A declarative pipeline orchestrator with the magic of HCL as a configuration language, inspired from Terraform's architecture. - srevinsaju/togomak

In the maker’s words, at launch

Togomak is a command line tool that runs pipelines locally and on the cloud using HashiCorp Configuration Language with a Terraform-like architecture. I am a DevOps engineer and I wanted to build something that is CI/CD provider agnostic - something like GNU make, which I could plug into any provider of choice…

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