GraphIaC 0.0.8

GraphIaC

GraphIaC

Early Alpha — Experimental Software GraphIaC is in early alpha. APIs will change, features are incomplete, and it has not been tested in production. Use at your own risk.

A graph-based Infrastructure-as-Code framework for AWS. Model your cloud infrastructure as a directed graph — nodes are AWS resources, edges are the connections and permissions between them.

The Problem

Tools like Terraform and Pulumi make it easy to define individual resources. The hard part is wiring them together: IAM policies, invoke permissions, service integrations. That boilerplate is repetitive, error-prone, and the main source of permission debugging in real projects. Most IaC tools treat it as an afterthought, burying it inside resource definitions in ways that make the code hard to read and impossible to reuse.

The Approach

GraphIaC promotes connections to first-class citizens. When you add a LambdaToDynamoEdge, the edge already knows what IAM policies are required. It queries the graph for the relevant ARNs and provisions everything itself. You declare the connection; the edge handles the boilerplate.

Because AWS permission patterns are stable, that knowledge gets written once into the edge class and reused everywhere. Nodes stay clean and self-contained, which means they're also easy to copy across projects.

A secondary benefit: because the infrastructure is a graph, you can render it as a diagram at any time — always up to date, no manual documentation required.

Key Concepts

• Nodes — AWS resources (Lambda, DynamoDB table, IAM role, API Gateway, etc.), each a Pydantic model with read, create, update, and delete methods
• Edges — the connections between resources; each edge knows what it takes to wire two nodes together (IAM policies, invoke permissions, etc.)
• State reconciliation — on every plan(), GraphIaC diffs live AWS state against a local SQLite DB and produces a list of CREATE, UPDATE, DELETE, or IMPORT operations
• run() — executes the plan in the correct order

Install

pip install GraphIaC

For development (editable install with test dependencies):

pip install -e ".[dev]"

GraphIaC can export infrastructure diagrams via Graphviz. To enable that, install pygraphviz:

pip install --config-settings="--global-option=build_ext" \
            --config-settings="--global-option=-I$(brew --prefix graphviz)/include/" \
            --config-settings="--global-option=-L$(brew --prefix graphviz)/lib/" \
            pygraphviz

Usage

import sqlite3
import boto3
import GraphIaC
from GraphIaC.aws.dynamodb import DynamoTable, DynamoKey
from GraphIaC.aws.lambda_func import LambdaFunction

session = boto3.Session(profile_name="my-profile")
db_conn = sqlite3.connect("my-infra.db")

state = GraphIaC.init(session, db_conn)

table = DynamoTable(g_id="users_table", table_name="users", partition_key=DynamoKey(name="pk", attr_type="S"))
GraphIaC.add_node(state, table)

# plan() shows what will change; run() applies it
GraphIaC.plan(state)
GraphIaC.run(state)

CLI

GraphIaC ships a command-line interface so you can run infra operations without writing a script.

python -m GraphIaC <aws-profile> --infra_file <path/to/infra.py> <command>

Commands

Command	What it does
plan	Diffs live AWS state against the local DB and prints the changes that would be applied
run	Applies the plan — creates, updates, and deletes resources
diagram	Renders the infrastructure graph as a Graphviz PNG
import	Imports existing AWS resources into local state

Examples

# Preview changes for a profile named my-aws-profile
python -m GraphIaC my-aws-profile --infra_file infra.py plan

# Apply changes
python -m GraphIaC my-aws-profile --infra_file infra.py run

# Render a diagram
python -m GraphIaC my-aws-profile --infra_file infra.py diagram

The SQLite state DB is created automatically next to the infra file (e.g. infra.py → infra.db). Your infra file must expose an infra(state) function that builds the graph:

# infra.py
def infra(state):
    table = DynamoTable(g_id="users_table", ...)
    GraphIaC.add_node(state, table)
    # add more nodes and edges...

Running Tests

Tests mirror the source tree (tests/aws/ covers src/GraphIaC/aws/, and so on for future providers).

AWS integration tests hit real AWS and require credentials. Set AWS_PROFILE to the profile you want to use, then run:

AWS_PROFILE=your-profile pytest tests/aws/

Tests generate randomized resource names on every run and clean up after themselves, including on failure. Resources are created in us-east-2 by default.

Run a specific test file:

AWS_PROFILE=your-profile pytest tests/aws/test_dynamodb.py -v

Skip AWS tests (e.g. in CI without credentials) — omit AWS_PROFILE or unset it. Any test that needs AWS will be skipped automatically.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.