# CloudForge — Visual Cloud Infrastructure Designer

> CloudForge is a free, browser-based tool that lets developers and DevOps engineers design, visualise, and deploy cloud infrastructure through a drag-and-drop canvas. It generates production-ready Terraform (HCL) from your diagrams and supports Azure, AWS, and GCP.

## What CloudForge does

- **Visual diagram builder** — drag-and-drop canvas with 200+ cloud resource icons for Azure, AWS, and GCP
- **Terraform code generation** — converts diagrams into production-ready `.tf` files instantly
- **AI Architect (Cloudie)** — Claude-powered assistant that designs architectures from natural language prompts
- **AI self-healing** — when Terraform deployments fail, Cloudie diagnoses and patches the code automatically
- **One-click deploy** — runs `terraform init`, `plan`, and `apply` directly from the browser
- **GitHub integration** — push generated Terraform files to any repository
- **Multi-cloud support** — Azure, AWS, GCP connections with credential management
- **Compliance + drift detection** — checks infrastructure against CIS benchmarks and detects config drift
- **Disaster recovery planning** — generates DR runbooks from existing architecture diagrams
- **Modular Terraform** — wraps raw HCL in reusable module structure

## Who it's for

- DevOps engineers and SREs who want to design infrastructure visually before writing code
- Cloud architects who need to communicate designs to non-technical stakeholders
- Developers adopting Infrastructure as Code for the first time
- Teams migrating from one cloud provider to another (Azure ↔ AWS ↔ GCP)

## Technology

- Built with Next.js 14, React, TypeScript, and ReactFlow on the frontend
- .NET 8 (C#) backend with SQLite (dev) / PostgreSQL (prod)
- Terraform CLI runs server-side in isolated job execution
- AI powered by Anthropic Claude (claude-opus-4-6)

## Pricing

Free for individual use. Team/enterprise plans available.

## Key URLs

- Homepage: https://cloudforge.cloud
- Blog: https://cloudforge.cloud/blog
- Register: https://cloudforge.cloud/auth/register
- AI Features: https://cloudforge.cloud/ai-features
- Terraform Visual Editor: https://cloudforge.cloud/terraform-visual-editor
- Azure Infrastructure Designer: https://cloudforge.cloud/azure-infrastructure-designer

## Blog

- https://cloudforge.cloud/blog/terraform-visual-editor-guide — Complete guide to Terraform visual editors
- https://cloudforge.cloud/blog/infrastructure-as-code-best-practices — 15 IaC best practices
- https://cloudforge.cloud/blog/multi-cloud-strategy-guide — Multi-cloud strategy guide
- https://cloudforge.cloud/blog/cloud-infrastructure-industry-problems — Why cloud infrastructure tooling is broken

## Contact

- Website: https://cloudforge.cloud
- Support: https://cloudforge.cloud/contact