Hey HN, after a fair few months of iteration, we're excited to share our latest offering in Speakeasy: auto-generation of Terraform providers using OpenAPI specifications.
The Problem: Building a Terraform Provider to expose an API via Infrastructure As Code (e.g. HCL, Pulumi, CDK) is expensive, error-prone, and highly repetitive.
However, if you don't have a mature terraform provider many products will not even be considered by mature organisations with a mandate to automate-all-the-things.
Our Solution:
1. Deep Integration with OpenAPI: Just point Speakeasy to your OpenAPI spec. Every change, every tweak, every evolution of your API is monitored, and we adapt in real-time.
2. Automated Terraform Provider Generation: Instead of manually coding a Terraform provider, Speakeasy synthesizes one for you, ensuring it remains in sync with your API's latest version.
3. Smart Schema Semantics: Based on CRUD operations, Speakeasy can smartly deduce and apply Terraform schema attributes like Computed, Optional, and Force Replace.
4. Continuous GitHub PRs: With each OpenAPI spec alteration, PRs are raised automatically against your Terraform provider repository, ensuring seamless and continuous integration.
Why Speakeasy for Terraform?
While several tools play around the fringes, none offer 100% automation via code synthesis. We've built and extensively tested our Terraform Provider Generation engine from OpenAPI, and have been in production with real customers for the last 6 months.
* It is possible to generate an OpenAPI specification for almost any server side framework (even things like ProtoBuf via REST Gateways) entirely automatically.
* Once your OpenAPI specification is automatically generated from your codebase, Speakeasy enables subsequent integration artifacts, like SDKs and Terraform Providers, to be automatically maintained with close-to-zero engineering effort.
* Once an API is exposed via a Terraform Provider, it becomes usable by the entire IaC ecosystem like Terraform, CDK, and Pulumi through the use of bridging tools.
* Speakeasy will also generate documentation, usage examples, support/guide you through the launch, and upgrade the provider automatically as the ecosystem matures.
The Problem: Building a Terraform Provider to expose an API via Infrastructure As Code (e.g. HCL, Pulumi, CDK) is expensive, error-prone, and highly repetitive.
However, if you don't have a mature terraform provider many products will not even be considered by mature organisations with a mandate to automate-all-the-things.
Our Solution:
1. Deep Integration with OpenAPI: Just point Speakeasy to your OpenAPI spec. Every change, every tweak, every evolution of your API is monitored, and we adapt in real-time.
2. Automated Terraform Provider Generation: Instead of manually coding a Terraform provider, Speakeasy synthesizes one for you, ensuring it remains in sync with your API's latest version.
3. Smart Schema Semantics: Based on CRUD operations, Speakeasy can smartly deduce and apply Terraform schema attributes like Computed, Optional, and Force Replace.
4. Continuous GitHub PRs: With each OpenAPI spec alteration, PRs are raised automatically against your Terraform provider repository, ensuring seamless and continuous integration.
Why Speakeasy for Terraform?
While several tools play around the fringes, none offer 100% automation via code synthesis. We've built and extensively tested our Terraform Provider Generation engine from OpenAPI, and have been in production with real customers for the last 6 months.
* It is possible to generate an OpenAPI specification for almost any server side framework (even things like ProtoBuf via REST Gateways) entirely automatically.
* Once your OpenAPI specification is automatically generated from your codebase, Speakeasy enables subsequent integration artifacts, like SDKs and Terraform Providers, to be automatically maintained with close-to-zero engineering effort.
* Once an API is exposed via a Terraform Provider, it becomes usable by the entire IaC ecosystem like Terraform, CDK, and Pulumi through the use of bridging tools.
* Speakeasy will also generate documentation, usage examples, support/guide you through the launch, and upgrade the provider automatically as the ecosystem matures.
Dive Deeper:
- Explore our product: https://www.speakeasyapi.dev
- Explore our CLI: https://github.com/speakeasy-api/speakeasy
- Explore our largest yet terraform provider: https://github.com/airbytehq/terraform-provider-airbyte
- Explore exposing a terraform provider via Pulumi: https://www.speakeasyapi.dev/post/pulumi-terraform-provider
- Explore a toy example: https://github.com/speakeasy-sdks/terraform-provider-hashicu...
A massive thanks to our early adopters and the vibrant Terraform community for guiding our journey.
HN, we’re eager for your insights. Whether it’s rigorous feedback, burning queries, or just wanting to geek out over Terraform and APIs, hit us up!