Infrastructure as Code

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Commit continuity, contributor activity, and delivery signals are strong.
Health score: 98/100.
Shipping score: 97/100.

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Best overallOpenTofu

Highest organic ToolVitals fit for this use case.

Healthier optionsProxmoxVE Scripts, Meshery

Stronger current public-health signal than Pulumi.

Verified open/source-visibleOpenTofu, ProxmoxVE Scripts, Crossplane, Meshery

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OpenTofu

Open-source infrastructure as code

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ProxmoxVE Scripts

Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts (Community Edition)

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Confidence90

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Crossplane

The Cloud Native Control Plane

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Health96

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Confidence90

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Meshery

Meshery, the cloud native manager

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Health99

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Score98

Confidence90

Stars11.8k

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Terragrunt

Orchestration tool for scaling Terraform/OpenTofu infrastructure as code.

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Atmos

👽 Terraform Orchestration Tool for DevOps. Keep environment configuration DRY with hierarchical imports of configurations, inheritance, and WAY more. Native support for Terraform and Helmfile.

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Terrateam

Open-source GitOps orchestration for Terraform and OpenTofu workflows.

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🔧 pyinfra turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. Execute ad-hoc commands and write declarative operations. Target SSH servers, local machine and Docker containers. Fast and scales from one server to thousands.

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DeployWhisper

AI-powered pre-deployment risk intelligence platform for infrastructure changes.

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Health90

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Confidence90

Stars10

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Terramate

Open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) orchestration platform: GitOps workflows, orchestration, code generation, observability, drift detection, asset management, policies, Slack notifications, and more. Integrates with Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, BitBucket Pipelines, and any other CI/CD platform.

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