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Code

Auto-generate the terraform code from the design and edit the generated code

Write Terraform code manually

Collaboration

Multiple users can design, edit and review the changes in real time. Users can use the work of each other without reinventing the wheel through templating of architectures, modules and CI/CD workflows.

No or low collaboration between DevOps & Cloud Architects.

Design the infrastructure

Create the infrastructure diagram and the IaC code that match 100% the deployed infrastructure

No live diagram view of infrastructures.

IaC templates catalog

Have architectures along with their IaC configuration as templates, public or private.

Not supported.

Import existing infrastructure

Import your existing terraform code to visualize your resources &/or convert your legacy infrastructure into terraform code - within minutes.

6-9 months of dedicated work for a cloud architect to manually write everything.

Modules

Add, delete, use and manage Terraform modules, public or private. Modules catalog automatically created.

Only public Modules supported.

Tooling

Brainboard (Terraform 100% coverage)

Diagramming + IDE + CI/CD Engine + Management Solution

Variables

Terraform variables that can be defined across organization, projects, environments and architectures

Not supported

CI/CD pipelines

Visually build (no YAML or specific DSL Language needed) and run pipelines and also manage dependencies between stages (external system when a condition is met)

Deployment only. No pipelines

CI/CD runners

Custom runners hosted by Brainboard that will execute the pipeline

Hosted on their infrastructure

CI/CD templates

Convert any pipeline into template and use it

Not supported

Costs estimation

Estimate the cost of the infrastructure (based on code) using infracost

Not supported

Webhooks

The possibility to call an external system when a condition is met

Not supported

Approval

Approve or reject the execution of any task with a maximum granularity per task

Not supported

Authentication SSO

OIDC & SAML, Different IDP providers (Octa, Azure AD...) with federation

Not supported

Policy as code

Define/codify policies used to manage the infrastructure with: OPA, AWS config rules

Not supported

RBAC

Role Based Access Control supported

Not supported

Remote backend

Supports all types of backends: AWS S3, Azure blob storage, Google GCS, Terraform cloud, Gitlab remote backend, HTTP endpoints, Brainboard remote backend

Limited & depending to local environment & hosted services.

Security plugins supported

Scan the IaC code for security with: tfsec, OPA, Checkov, Terrascan

Not supported

Cloud providers supported

AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Azure stack, Azure DevOpos, Scaleway and more planned for 2024. Multicloud is supported.

Limited to one cloud provider or 2 major.

Documentation

Unified Readme documentation, diagram, and code for everyone.

Potential drift between the design and the code.

Drift detection

Detect changes that either doesn't match the code or doesn't match the deployed infrastructureThe possibility to prevent drift between environments.

Not supported

Git providers supported

Support: Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps

Git supported

Inventory view of cloud environments

Unified view of infrastructure projects, environments and architectures

Requires a dedicated management tool.

Synchronize environments

Native mechanism to synchronize enviroments for e.g. staging, QA and production (Terragrunt like)

Not supported

Terraform registry

Use modules from Terraform registry

Not supported

Versioning

Keep track of every modification you do on design / code and or go to any specific point-in-time. Native versioning or Git supported.

Not supported