Simplify the learning curve of visually building cloud infrastructures using Terraform through a collaborative process, guiding users to utilize the best practices for each cloud provider, making it a viable Terraform Cloud alternative.
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Whether you copy a public template, import existing Terraform files, or start from scratch, build robust multi-cloud architectures the way you would on a whiteboard. Drag and drop resources from any cloud provider supported by Terraform, easing the transition from or to Terraform Cloud alternatives.
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Automatically generate valid Terraform code directly from the cloud architecture diagram with built-in best practices making it a reliable Terraform Cloud alternative.
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Apply code principles to your designs and version every step of your work natively in Brainboard or with pull requests, similar to the version control offered by Terraform Cloud alternatives.
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Invite others to collaborate in real-time or asynchronously on all Cloud Design Systems, emphasizing the collaborative advantages over other Terraform Cloud alternatives.
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Add actions to your pipeline and configure approval requirements for cloud infrastructure deployment, showcasing a user-friendly Terraform Cloud alternative.
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Promote & sync cloud infrastructure to eliminate cross-environment drift, a feature comparable to Terraform Cloud alternatives.
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Create pull requests and deploy through Git, integrating seamlessly with your existing workflow as a Terraform Cloud alternative.
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Securely store Terraform state files in your own remote backend, ensuring a safe and efficient Terraform Cloud alternative.
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By implementing your own self-service model, everyone can understand and collaborate effectively on cloud infrastructure development. This model also enables users to produce up-to-date diagrams for compliance documentation, ensuring that visual representations consistently align with the actual infrastructure's current state.
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Structure your projects, environments, and architecture in a single organization-wide view, akin to organizational features in Terraform Cloud alternatives.
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Import Terraform modules and leverage from the community’s templates library, offering modular functionalities like some Terraform Cloud alternatives.
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Replace hard-coded values with variables to create reusable building blocks, a feature aimed at competing with Terraform Cloud alternatives.
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"I want to empower engineers to focus on solving high level cloud design problems, rather than mindlessly repeating work. Brainboard is the key to solving this problem."
Chafik
CEO & Founder of Brainboard
"Brainboard is a revolutionary technology. It created a whole ecosystem to design and operate the cloud, taking infrastructure management to the next level."
Sebastian Pahl
Co-founder
"What a time-saver Brainboard is. All of my resources, modules, templates are right there in the library, ready to pull in error free the first time."
Thomas Smith
Manager
"The team shared their expertise and best practices with us, which made the process of building our infrastructure much smoother and efficient. We felt empowered and confident in our abilities to build something truly great with the help of the Brainboard team."
Alain
Senior Consultant at KPMG
"Fasten your belt and get ready to reach the clouds with ease, effectiveness, and elegance. Being able to organize, design and deploy architectures for all the applications that are built makes me save a lot of time. Brainboard solves for me the hassle can be to managing the environment and settings for cloud-based applications.”
Michel M.
Azure customer, Infrastructure Manager
“Brainboard allows us to quickly visualize our cloud platforms and assets, and even deploy multi-cloud architectures with one click. It's also helped us better manage our cloud infrastructure costs.”
Eric O.
CTO
"Very easy-to-use tool to design Azure architecture and generate Terraform scripts. I was a newbie in Terraform when I first started using Brainboard, and it was beneficial. It is also effortless to clone architectures, reuse parts/modules and also do reverse engineering."
David G.
Azure customer, Terraform newbie
“I can't find the words to describe how incredible, powerful, and practical Brainboard is for me as a DevOps Engineer.”
Abel L.
DevOps Engineer
“I have been using Brainboard along with Infracost for a few months now and I am extremely impressed with their efficiency in saving cloud costs. The integration of Infracost with Brainboard has made it incredibly easy for me to analyze and optimize my cloud spending.”
Nathan
Revenue Ops
“The team at Brainboard has been incredibly supportive and responsive to any queries I or any of my startup portfolio have had regarding their platform, which has made the entire process of migrating to Terraform, seamless.”
Alexandre
Managing Partner
“Brainboard might've made the coolest tool of 2022 for me. Seriously it's phenomenal what it can do!”
Jim C.
Principal Cloud Architect
"Enterprise workloads need Brainboard."
Chris Smith
Engineering Manager
"As a cloud architect, Brainboard has allowed me to give life to my designs and architecture choices, because going from a diagram to an operational architecture is just a few clicks."
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Yassir A.
Senior Cloud Architect
"Why write programming code when you can design application systems with Brainboard?"
Denis Astahov
Solution Architect
"Brainboard is my greatest cloud discovery of 2023. The CI/CD Engine is very powerful and have room to be the reference of it all! I recommend testing Brainboard's diagramming to code capabilities which are indeed very impressive."
Adrien
Senior Cloud Engineer
"Welcome to the era of Terraform-as-Diagram! Brainboard is Terraform migration made easy and visual."
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Data Analytics
Auto-generate the terraform code from the design and edit the generated code
Write Terraform code manually
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.
Create the infrastructure diagram and the IaC code that match 100% the deployed infrastructure
No live diagram view of infrastructures.
Have architectures along with their IaC configuration as templates, public or private.
Not supported.
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.
Add, delete, use and manage Terraform modules, public or private. Modules catalog automatically created.
Only public Modules supported.
Brainboard (Terraform 100% coverage)
Diagramming + IDE + CI/CD Engine + Management Solution
Terraform variables that can be defined across organization, projects, environments and architectures
Not supported
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
Custom runners hosted by Brainboard that will execute the pipeline
Hosted on their infrastructure
Convert any pipeline into template and use it
Not supported
Estimate the cost of the infrastructure (based on code) using infracost
Not supported
The possibility to call an external system when a condition is met
Not supported
Approve or reject the execution of any task with a maximum granularity per task
Not supported
OIDC & SAML, Different IDP providers (Octa, Azure AD...) with federation
Not supported
Define/codify policies used to manage the infrastructure with: OPA, AWS config rules
Not supported
Role Based Access Control supported
Not supported
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.
Scan the IaC code for security with: tfsec, OPA, Checkov, Terrascan
Not 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.
Unified Readme documentation, diagram, and code for everyone.
Potential drift between the design and the code.
Detect changes that either doesn't match the code or doesn't match the deployed infrastructureThe possibility to prevent drift between environments.
Not supported
Support: Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps
Git supported
Unified view of infrastructure projects, environments and architectures
Requires a dedicated management tool.
Native mechanism to synchronize enviroments for e.g. staging, QA and production (Terragrunt like)
Not supported
Use modules from Terraform registry
Not supported
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
Brainboard proudly stands as the premier cloud infrastructure design and management solution. We empower engineers like you to create cloud native designs before diving into an auto-generated code.
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