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Resourcely and Cookiecutter

Resourcely is singularly focused on provisioning and managing infrastructure configuration. Cookiecutter is a CLI utility designed for project scaffolding by creating code templates.

Resourcely is an infrastructure configuration platform. With it, platform teams build guided infrastructure deployment templates. Developers move faster with a UI that generates infrastructure as code that looks like an expert wrote it.

Cookiecutter is an open-source library for building coding project templates. It is a general purpose framework, without integration into the cloud infrastructure ecosystem. It is CLI-based, and is used to create reusable code templates.

How Resourcely and Cookiecutter compare

Summary
Resourcely
Cookiecutter
Goal
Full configuration platform for cloud infrastructure - efficiently and safely creating cloud resources
General purpose CLI utility for creating project scaffolding
Installed via...
Hosted UI, no installation required for templates
Python library and CLI
Templates defined using
Templated Terraform (TFT)
json + Jinja2 + CLI
Rules and policies
Migration, upgrades, and remediation
Deep Dive
Resourcely
Cookiecutter
Customize templates based on context
Yes
Yes
Automatically generated UI
Yes
Pre-built best practice templates
Thousands
Limited
Integrated policies and rules
Integrated into version control
Integrated into CI
Enum values
Yes, reusable
Inline only
Link templates together
Support available
Community only
Support for cloud resource parameters
Modularity
Yes, build and link components together
No, templates are monoliths
Integrated IDE and testing suite

Build self-service configuration

Scale your central teams, enabling your developers to move faster, while securing and stabilizing your cloud platform.

Blueprints

Paved roads to production: customize patterns for developers to deploy cloud resources. Automatically generate UI that generates Terraform that meets your expectations.

Guardrails

Safeguard your cloud infrastructure: implement rules and policies, expose them to your developers at code creation, and prevent misconfiguration from making it to production as part of your CI.

Campaigns

Fix your production issues: detect vulnerabilities and give developers the tooling to fix them without having to be cloud infrastructure experts.

Developers shouldn't have to be cloud infrastructure experts

With Resourcely, they don't have to be

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