inframate

Inframate is a Terraform infrastructure auditing tool that cross-references your code, state file, and live cloud environment to classify every resource as managed, pending, drifted, unmanaged, or orphaned — giving DevOps engineers and platform teams a complete, accurate picture of their infrastructure at any point in time.

Unlike tools that only compare state to code, Inframate performs a three-way reconciliation: it reads your Terraform HCL, reads the state file, and queries the actual running cloud environment simultaneously. Each resource is assigned one of five distinct statuses — managed (code, state, and cloud all agree), pending (code change not yet applied), drifted (live cloud differs from state), unmanaged (exists in cloud but not in Terraform), or orphaned (in state but no longer in the cloud). This granular classification makes it straightforward to identify infrastructure that has changed out-of-band, resources that were created manually without being codified, and state entries that no longer reflect reality.

Inframate ships both a terminal user interface (TUI) and a web dashboard from a single binary, so teams can choose the interface that suits their workflow without installing separate tools. It is distributed via Homebrew (brew install inframate), requires no account creation or cloud-side service, and runs entirely from the local machine. This zero-account model means there is no data sent to a third-party service and no onboarding friction for individual engineers or teams evaluating the tool.

The tool is aimed at software engineers, DevOps practitioners, and platform engineering teams who manage Terraform-provisioned infrastructure and need visibility into drift, shadow resources, and state inconsistencies without adopting a full-featured (and often expensive) cloud management platform.

Detecting Terraform infrastructure drift, identifying unmanaged cloud resources created outside Terraform, finding orphaned state entries for resources that no longer exist, auditing three-way consistency between Terraform code and state and live cloud, classifying every cloud resource by management status, local infrastructure auditing without a SaaS account, onboarding to an existing cloud environment to understand its Terraform coverage, pre-migration infrastructure inventory, ongoing drift monitoring for platform engineering teams, investigating out-of-band changes to cloud infrastructure