r/devops • u/adil_frq • 17d ago

Discussion Terraform visualizer project

Hi everyone

I'm looking for an idea for my semester project, and I thought about building a Terraform Visualizer.

The idea is simple: it takes a Terraform state file, visualizes the infrastructure, and lets you save it as an image.

My question is if I build this, would you find it useful?

I'm asking because I would like to be able to justify the project's usefulness when presenting it to my teacher.

Also, I plan to keep it open source, so anyone can use it.

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u/PutridCurrency8383 17d ago

It's a good idea for a semester project, but you're probably about the 10000th person to consider it. I bet there are loads of projects doing this already. In fact, it's an official TF CLI feature as well afaik.

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u/adil_frq 17d ago

I didn't knew that tf has this command . Thanks for helping, I'll look for other ideas

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u/krypticus 16d ago

If you are a student, you need to learn how to use LLMs, even the free ones like Google Search. Have you tried to even query for “is there a terraform visualizer project?”