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Discover a Registry Module and Vet It

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Recipe · 4 steps

Discover a Registry Module and Vet It

with Terraform

Search the registry for a module and gather the signals needed to vet it.

  1. Search the public registry for modules matching the keyword, narrowed to the target provider and optionally to verified publishers only.
  2. Read the top match's latest version for the specific provider, capturing the source repository, description, and verified flag that decide adoption.
  3. List every version the module has published, so a long gap since the last release or a thin version history shows up before the module is adopted.
  4. Pull the module's download metrics as a popularity and liveness signal, distinguishing a widely used module from an abandoned one.
What you'll need to have ready
  • searchQuery: The keyword or phrase to search the registry for (e.g. "vpc").
  • provider: The provider to filter to (e.g. aws, azurerm, google).
  • verifiedOnly: Whether to restrict results to HashiCorp-verified modules.
  • resultLimit: How many search results to return, up to 100.
For your developer

Arazzo workflow terraform:discover-module, 4 operations: SearchModules → GetModuleLatestVersion → ListModuleVersions → GetModuleDownloadSummary. Specs on APIs.io.

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