Tools Thoughtworks Technology Radar 44. tfsec Adopt For our projects using Terraform, tfsec has quickly become a default static analysis tool to detect potential security risks. It’s easy to integrate into a CI pipeline and has a growing library of checks against all of the major cloud providers and platforms like Kubernetes. Given its ease of use, we believe tfsec could be a good addition to any Terraform project. 45. AKHQ Trial AKHQ is a GUI for Apache Kafka that lets you manage topics, topics data, consumer groups and more. Some of our teams have found AKHQ to be an effective tool to watch the real-time status of a Kafka cluster. You can, for example, browse the topics on a cluster. For each topic, you can visualize the name, the number of messages stored, the disk size used, the time of the last record, the number of partitions, the replication factor with the in-sync quantity and the consumer group. With options for Avro and Protobuf deserialization, AKHQ can help you understand the flow of data in your Kafka environment. 46. cert-manager Trial cert-manager is a tool to manage your X.509 certificates within your Kubernetes cluster. It models certificates and issuers as first-class resource types and provides certificates as a service securely to developers and applications working within the Kubernetes cluster. The obvious choice when using the Kubernetes default ingress controller, it’s also recommended for others and much preferred over hand-rolling your own certificate management. Several of our teams have been using cert-manager extensively, and we’ve also found that its usability has much improved in the past few months. 47. Cloud Carbon Footprint Trial Cloud Carbon Footprint (CCF) is an open-source tool that uses cloud APIs to provide visualizations of estimated carbon emissions based on usage across AWS, GCP and Azure. The Thoughtworks team has successfully used the tool with several organizations, including energy technology companies, retailers, digital service providers and companies that use AI. Cloud platform providers realize that it’s important to help their customers understand the carbon impact of using their services, so they’ve begun to build similar functionality themselves. Because CCF is cloud agnostic, it allows users to view energy usage and carbon emissions for multiple cloud providers in one place, while translating carbon footprints into real-world impact such as flights or trees planted. In recent releases, CCF has begun to include Google Cloud and AWS-sourced optimization recommendations alongside potential energy and CO2 savings, as well as to support more cloud instance types such as GPU instances. Given the traction the tool has received and the continued addition of new features, we feel confident moving it to Trial. © Thoughtworks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 26