Tools 60. Terraform Cloud Operator Trial More and more teams are using the Kubernetes Operators pattern to manage their Kubernetes clusters. We used to recommend Crossplane for this, and now we have an alternative tool, Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes. This tool integrates Terraform Cloud and Kubernetes by extending the Kubernetes control plane to enable lifecycle management of cloud and on-premise infrastructures through Kubernetes manifests. Our team uses it to provision resources from Kubernetes namespaces and RoleBindings to cloud database instances and other SaaS resources. We quite like it because it leverages the Terraform module, which is a more familiar abstraction layer for us to operate cloud resources. 61. Tru昀툀eHog Trial TruffleHog is an open-source SAST (static application security testing) tool for detecting secrets in various sources. While GitHub and GitLab repositories are the most popular use cases, it can also be used to scan cloud storage buckets like S3 and GCS, local files and directories and CircleCI logs. Developers can set up TruffleHog as a pre-commit hook or scan the history of existing repositories in an entire GitHub organization to detect secrets. The tool supports detecting custom regex patterns, which have been found to be quite useful even in its current alpha stage. TruffleHog also has an enterprise version, but our devs have found the open-source version easy to set up and sufficient for the most common use cases. The tool has a very active community who regularly adds features. 62. Typesense Trial Typesense is an open-source, typo-tolerant search engine optimized for low-latency and high- performance search experiences. If you’re building a latency-sensitive search application with a search index size that can fit in memory, Typesense is a powerful alternative. Our teams use Typesense in high availability multi-node clusters to distribute workload and ensure critical search infrastructure is resilient. They had a good experience with Typesense in production, which is why we’ve moved it to Trial. 63. Vite Trial Vite, a front-end build tool, has continued to mature and grow in popularity since we featured it in the Assess ring in the previous Radar. It is rapidly becoming the default choice among our teams when starting a new front-end project. Vite provides a set of defaults for building, bundling and managing dependencies in applications that depend on ES modules in the browser. Because it takes advantage of the native speed of esbuild and the Rollup bundler, Vite significantly improves the front-end developer experience. Moreover, when used with React, Vite offers an attractive alternative to the stalwart but nearly defunct Create React App. Vite relies on ES modules, and unlike most older tools, it doesn’t provide shimming or polyfills, which means you need a different strategy for older browsers that don’t support ES modules. In cases where older browsers had to be supported, some of our teams import polyfills at the module level so that Vite can be used consistently across environments. © Thoughtworks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 32