Infrastructure as Code teams are choosing between tools that solve different parts of the workflow: provisioning, orchestration, GitOps, configuration generation, and infrastructure change review. This June 2026 view uses ToolVitals data for Infrastructure as Code Tools, including health score, shipping score, ToolVitals score, GitHub stars, status, openness_label, and license_label.
The ranking includes open/source-visible tools only. Tools are ordered by ToolVitals score first, with GitHub stars used as a secondary popularity signal when scores are close or tied.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenTofu | OSI-approved OSS | MPL-2.0 | 100 | 100 | 29098 | 100 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Pulumi | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 100 | 100 | 25319 | 100 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | Meshery | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 100 | 100 | 11019 | 100 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | ProxmoxVE Scripts | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 95 | 100 | 28598 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | Crossplane | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 95 | 100 | 11777 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | Terragrunt | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 91 | 100 | 9669 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | Atmos | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 90 | 100 | 1312 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | Terrateam | OSI-approved OSS | MPL-2.0 | 92 | 89 | 1242 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 9 | SST | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 90 | 83 | 26085 | 90 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 10 | pyinfra | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 87 | 78 | 5807 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 11 | DeployWhisper | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 74 | 84 | 9 | 82 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 12 | Terramate | OSI-approved OSS | MPL-2.0 | 72 | 71 | 3601 | 78 | 🟢 Good |
| 13 | ops0-cli | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 56 | 63 | 68 | 69 | 🟢 Good |
| 14 | Stelvio | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 66 | 30 | 278 | 63 | 🟢 Good |
| 15 | NginxConfig | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 38 | 0 | 28291 | 39 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 16 | Kubefirst | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 41 | 0 | 2049 | 37 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 17 | Monokle | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 36 | 0 | 2137 | 36 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 18 | OpenQRM Community | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-2.0 | 26 | 0 | 11 | 32 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 19 | CloudEon | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 5 | 0 | 494 | 21 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
OpenTofu ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 100, health score of 100, and shipping score of 100. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS under MPL-2.0 and has 29,098 GitHub stars, making it both the highest-scoring tool in this set and one of the most visible projects by repository activity signal.
Pulumi also scores 100 across ToolVitals, health, and shipping. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS under Apache-2.0, and its 25,319 GitHub stars make it the second-ranked tool after OpenTofu under the stated ordering.
Meshery is the third tool with a perfect ToolVitals score of 100, backed by health and shipping scores of 100. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS under Apache-2.0 and has 11,019 GitHub stars, placing it behind OpenTofu and Pulumi among the perfect-score group.
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