What The Cloud Is Built From Screensaver
The What The Cloud Is Built From screensaver shows the most-downloaded modules on the Terraform registry, key-less. Download counts on infrastructure code mean something different from download counts on a library: every terraform init in every CI run pulls the module again, so these numbers are closer to a count of deployments than of people. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
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The most-downloaded modules on the Terraform registry, key-less. Download counts on infrastructure code mean something different from download counts on a library: every terraform init in every CI run pulls the module again, so these numbers are closer to a count of deployments than of people.
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What Terraform module downloads count
Terraform is a tool for describing cloud infrastructure in code, and the Terraform Registry is where people publish reusable pieces of it called modules. A module bundles a recipe, such as an AWS network or a Google Cloud project setup, so that teams do not write it from scratch. Public modules must live in public GitHub repositories named terraform-<PROVIDER>-<NAME>, such as terraform-aws-ec2-instance, and the registry takes the module’s name and provider from that source.
Release tags must be semantic versions, so a module’s version history on the registry mirrors its tags. Download counts on this kind of code mean something different from counts on a library, because automated pipelines can fetch the same module again and again. A module used in a busy continuous-integration system can outrank a more widely admired module used by few people, so the number says more about use than about how many people use it.
The count does not show which version people run, whether they run it in production, or whether the module is still maintained. OpenTofu, a fork of Terraform, has its own public registry, so its traffic is not part of the Terraform Registry’s figures.
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The most-downloaded modules on the Terraform registry, key-less. Download counts on infrastructure code mean something different from download counts on a library: every terraform init in every CI run pulls the module again, so these numbers are closer to a count of deployments than of people.
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Frequently asked questions
- Is this real data?
- Yes — it comes from the source named on this page and is refreshed on a schedule.
- Is a key needed?
- No. This source is fully key-less.
- Is it free?
- Yes, and it runs entirely in your browser.
- Does one download equal one user?
- No. Automated builds can fetch the same module repeatedly, so a count reflects usage volume rather than a number of people.
- How are modules named?
- Public module repositories follow the pattern terraform-<PROVIDER>-<NAME>, for example terraform-aws-ec2-instance, and release tags must be semantic versions.
- Does a high count mean a module is high quality?
- Not necessarily. It reflects use and automation volume, so check maintenance and recent releases separately.