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Brainboard

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Brainboard is a cloud infrastructure design and management platform that turns visual architecture diagrams into Terraform code. It addresses the gap between what teams design, what they deploy, and what runs in production, supporting multi-cloud environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other providers on a single canvas. It also supports one-click migration to Infrastructure as Code, disaster recovery planning, and self-serve infrastructure provisioning through an internal service catalog.

Key capabilities include the Smart Cloud Designer, which generates Terraform code from diagrams and applies naming conventions, tags, and policy packs at design time. The platform supports Terraform and OpenTofu modules through a private module catalog, GitOps workflows connected to git repositories, an embedded CI/CD engine with plan/apply gates, policy checks, security scans, and cost checks, plus drift detection and remediation. AI-assisted configuration suggestions provide values, defaults, and patterns based on provider and Terraform documentation. Architecture synchronization propagates changes across environments while keeping variables, credentials, and tfstate isolated per environment.

Brainboard is aimed at cloud architects, DevOps and DevSecOps engineers, platform teams, and organizations standardizing infrastructure across multiple providers. It is available as a free tier, a paid Pro plan, and an Enterprise plan that includes self-hosting and SSO options.

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