VisuIDP

Inspiration

I noticed developers at my organization are writing the same Terraform repeatedly. My goal is to build a tool that eliminates the need for them to do that.

What it does

VisuIDP provides developers with a centralized, visual way to manage their cloud projects. It lets them select their cloud resources visually, and then automatically generates infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) based on their selection. It can be used in a CI/CD pipeline to generate infrastructure-as-code on the fly. It also supports generating infrastructure-as-code across multiple clouds.

How we built it

I primarily used Kiro specs to build the majority of the code. I vibe-coded parts of it as well, for the small things.

Challenges we ran into

• The biggest challenge was the authentication piece. I spent several days trying different permutations until it worked.
• The second biggest challenge was the deployment. Getting it to run in my Kubernetes cluster was challenging.
• The agent made assumptions, even though the spec really helped it stay on track. I had to pause it and update the spec in several instances.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• I was proud to deploy the application to Kubernetes and to see if it was finally working. That initial deployment was quite challenging.

What we learned

• I learned the importance of steering documents and keeping them up to date.

What's next for VisuIDP

• CloudFormation generation
• Pipeline generation (GitHub actions)
• Developer script generation (Cloning multiple repositories, getting latest from multiple repositories)
• Integration with GitHub Actions

Built With

• amazon-dynamodb
• java
• postgresql
• react
• rust
• terraform