There are a lot of developer tools out there. These are the ones we use.

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code

Extensions

• Python
• Docker
• Terraform
• AWS
• Teams
• AWS CLI Configure
• AWS Toolkit
• Azure Account
• Azure CLI Tools
• Azure Pipelines
• Azure Repos
• Azure Terraform
• GitHub Pull Requests and Issues
• Hashicorp Terraform
• JSON Tools
• markdownlint
• PowerShell
• Prettify JSON
• Rainbow CSV
• Remote - Containers
• SFTP
• Thunder Client
• XML Tools
• YAML
• Prettier
• Terrastate
• tfsec
• Code Runner
• Packer
• Checkov

IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA

Extensions

GitHub

This is where our code lives: GitHub

GitHub Desktop

GitHub Desktop is a great tool to view all of our repositories on GitHub.

GitHub integrations

When adding code to Github we are checking the conventions with pre-commit:

https://github.com/compilerla/conventional-pre-commit

Especially the following areas are checked:

      - id: trailing-whitespace
      - id: end-of-file-fixer
      - id: check-yaml
      - id: check-added-large-files
      - id: check-builtin-literals
      - id: check-byte-order-marker
      - id: check-json
      - id: check-xml
      - id: check-yaml
      - id: check-merge-conflict
      - id: check-shebang-scripts-are-executable
      - id: check-symlinks
      - id: mixed-line-ending
      - id: detect-private-key
      - id: pretty-format-json
      - id: detect-aws-credentials
      - id: no-commit-to-branch

For Terraform related code we are using the following integration:

https://github.com/antonbabenko/pre-commit-terraform

Especially the following areas are checked:

      - id: terraform_validate
      - id: terraform_fmt
      - id: terraform_tflint
      - id: terraform_tfsec
      - id: checkov
      - id: terraform_docs

In addition to that we are checking JSON and code with:

• https://github.com/sirosen/check-jsonschema
• https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-prettier

Windows Terminal

The next generation terminal for Windows: Github