
I described my entire AWS infrastructure in plain English. This tool wrote all the Terraform.
I've avoided Terraform for years. Not because it's bad — it's excellent. But learning HCL, provider configs, state management, and module structures is a significant investment that I kept deprioritizing. So I built nlops — describe your infrastructure in plain English, get production-ready Terraform back. How a session looks $ nlops init Describe your infrastructure: A web app with a Postgres database, Redis cache, and auto-scaling. Needs to stay under $150 /month on AWS. Generating Terraform... Will create: - 1 ECS Fargate service ( web app, t3.small ) - 1 RDS Postgres instance ( db.t3.micro, 20GB ) - 1 ElastiCache Redis node ( cache.t3.micro ) - 1 Application Load Balancer - Auto Scaling Group ( min: 1, max: 3 ) Estimated monthly cost: ~ $127 /month Apply? [ y/N]: It generates real Terraform HCL. Not a wrapper. Not a platform. Standard .tf files you own forever. Incremental updates nlops update "add a CloudFront distribution in front of the load balancer" nlops sends your existing T
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