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iann0036/former2
Generate CloudFormation / Terraform / Troposphere templates from your existing AWS resources.
Former2 scans your live AWS account and generates IaC templates from what's already running — CloudFormation, Terraform, Troposphere, CDK v1/v2, CDKtf, and Pulumi. It runs entirely in-browser via the AWS JS SDK, so your credentials never leave your machine. It's the fastest way to bootstrap IaC for an account that was clicked together in the console.
1. Output breadth is genuinely impressive: six IaC targets including CDK in four languages, all from a single scan — no other tool covers this much ground. 2. Browser-only architecture is the right call for a credentials-touching tool; nothing hits a third-party backend, and you can self-host it on localhost if you don't trust the public instance. 3. Still actively maintained (pushed June 2025), which matters because AWS adds services constantly and coverage has to keep pace. 4. LocalStack support means you can test the generated templates against a local environment before touching production.
1. Terraform coverage is 49% — half the AWS surface area produces no output, which is exactly the half you'll need when you hit it. The badge in the README is doing a lot of work to make that sound acceptable. 2. Requires a companion browser extension to bypass CORS on services like S3 and IAM; this is a hard dependency, not an optimization, so the tool doesn't fully work without it. 3. Generated templates are snapshots, not production-ready code — hardcoded ARNs, no parameterization, missing dependencies between resources, and drift starts the moment you export. Plan for a manual cleanup pass on anything non-trivial. 4. The CLI alternative has 'limited functionality' with no clear documentation of what that actually means, so there's no real path to automating this in CI.