Best Infrastructure As Code Tools

AWS CDK

4.5 rating

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open-source IaC framework that lets developers define AWS infrastructure using TypeScript, Python, Java, .NET, or Go, then synthesizes the code to CloudFormation for deployment.

AWS CloudFormation

4.6 rating

AWS infrastructure-as-code service for provisioning and managing cloud resources using JSON or YAML templates with automatic rollback on failure.

Atlantis

4.4 rating

Atlantis is an open-source Terraform pull request automation tool that posts plan output as PR comments, enforces approval workflows, and provides audit trails for infrastructure changes across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps.

Brainboard

4.5 rating

Brainboard is an AI-driven cloud infrastructure platform that combines visual architecture design with automatic Terraform code generation, enabling collaborative multi-cloud design across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Scaleway with embedded GitOps and CI/CD.

Checkov

4.4 rating

Policy-as-code static analysis tool that scans IaC configurations across Terraform, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes for security misconfigurations.

Helm

4.4 rating

The package manager for Kubernetes that defines, installs, and upgrades complex applications using reusable, versioned Charts.

Infracost

4.2 rating

Infracost shifts FinOps left by showing cloud cost impacts directly in pull requests for Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, and CloudFormation, helping engineering teams catch budget overruns before deployment.

OpenTofu

4.4 rating

Open-source fork of Terraform maintained by the Linux Foundation, providing community-driven infrastructure-as-code with full Terraform compatibility.

Pulumi

4.9 rating

IaC using real programming languages.

Spacelift

4.9 rating

Infrastructure orchestration platform that adds policy, governance, and workflow automation on top of Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes.

Terraform

4.7 rating

Infrastructure as Code for multi-cloud deployment.

Terragrunt

4.2 rating

Open-source IaC orchestrator for Terraform and OpenTofu that eliminates code duplication at scale.

Vagrant

4.4 rating

Vagrant is a HashiCorp command-line utility that provisions and manages reproducible virtual development environments using a single Vagrantfile, helping teams eliminate "works on my machine" issues.

env0

4.2 rating

env0 is a cloud governance platform for self-service infrastructure deployment, providing IaC automation, policy-as-code guardrails, drift detection, and cost management across Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, and Kubernetes workflows at enterprise scale.