Basic information

• Name - Gruntwork
• Type - Infrastructure as Code Management Platform
• Founded - 2016
• Founders - Yevgeniy Brikman and Josh Padnick
• Website - https://www.gruntwork.io/ 

Company overview

Gruntwork is a bootstrapped DevOps infrastructure company that helps DevOps teams launch and operate enterprise-grade infrastructure with infrastructure as code (IaC) modules and an IaC management platform to create end-to-end IaC workflows. 

Founded in 2016, the company serves 500+ organizations from startups to Fortune 1000 enterprises. Not only does Gruntwork have a full commercial offering to help teams stand up and manage a scalable, secure, and compliant multi-account AWS infrastructure, but the company also maintains 300+ battle-tested OpenTofu/Terraform modules comprising over 350,000 lines of reusable code, and created widely-adopted open source tools including Terragrunt (Terraform orchestration), Terratest (infrastructure testing), and is a founding member and contributor to OpenTofu (infrastructure as code tool).

Gruntwork’s mission is to “Make it 10x easier to deliver software” by handling the heavy lifting of infrastructure so teams can focus on products unique to their business. 

Primary services and products

AWS Accelerator - a full commercial offering to help teams stand up and manage a scalable, secure, and compliant multi-account AWS infrastructure. It comes with:

• AWS Platform Architecture - a well-architected AWS landing zone based on best practice DevOps standards and baselines, setting teams with all the foundational pieces they need to get started with AWS and Terraform/OpenTofu.
• AWS Account Factory — GitOps vending of new, baseline-compliant AWS accounts.
• AWS IaC Library — 300+ commercially maintained OpenTofu/Terraform modules.
• IaC Management Platform — the tools needed to deploy, manage, update, and tear down infrastructure seamlessly.
• Guided Setup - help through the entire setup to stand up an AWS landing zone, repo structure (including Terragrunt stacks), Account Factory, and IaC Management Platform.

IaC Management Platform — the tools needed to deploy, manage, update, and tear down infrastructure seamlessly. The IaC management platform can be used across AWS, GCP, and Azure. It comes with:

• Pipelines — PR-driven CI/CD for IaC at scale
• Drift Detection — detect and resolve drift in your infrastructure
• Patcher — automatic, safe upgrades of your IaC

Enterprise Support Services — best practice guidance and troubleshooting as well as migration support for Gruntwork’s open source tools.

Open source tools

Open source tools created and maintained by Gruntwork

• Terragrunt - Flexible orchestration tool and thin wrapper for Terraform/OpenTofu that provides extra tools for keeping configurations DRY, working with multiple modules, and managing remote state.
• Terratest - Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code. 
• Boilerplate - tool for generating files and folders ("boilerplate") from a set of templates.
• CloudNuke - CLI tool for deleting all resources in cloud accounts, primarily used for destroying leftover test resources.
• GitXargs - CLI tool for making updates across multiple GitHub repositories simultaneously.

Target customers

Company profiles

• Startups - technology startups and early-stage companies needing fast AWS setup with best practices from day one.
• Scale-ups - growing companies needing to scale infrastructure as teams grow while maintaining development velocity.
• Enterprises - Fortune 1000 companies requiring multi-team management, enterprise controls, and compliance standards.

Technical maturity levels

• Cloud adopters - companies migrating to AWS or cloud-native infrastructure.
• IaC adopters - organizations adopting Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• OpenTofu/Terraform adopters - teams using or wanting to use Terraform, OpenTofu, or Terragrunt.

Industry verticals

• Financial Services - FinTech companies requiring security and compliance.
• Technology - Software companies and SaaS providers needing scalable infrastructure.
• Healthcare and Healthtech - Companies needing HIPAA compliance for patient data.
• Regulated Industries - organizations requiring CIS, SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, NIST compliance requirements.

Primary use cases

• AWS infrastructure setup - multi-account AWS architecture deployment with Landing Zone, network topology (VPCs, subnets, route tables, VPN), security and compliance baselines.
• DevOps transformation - moving from manual infrastructure to Infrastructure as Code, modernizing existing infrastructure, and accelerating DevOps adoption.
• Compliance and security - CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark compliance out-of-the-box, SOC 2/PCI/HIPAA/HITRUST/NIST compliance support, and security controls and guard rails (SCPs, AWS Config Rules).
• CI/CD and automation - automated deployment pipelines with GitOps workflows deploying from GitHub/GitLab PRs, infrastructure drift detection and remediation, automated infrastructure updates and patching.

Ideal customer profile

Best fit characteristics

• Using AWS as primary cloud platform
• Using or adopting OpenTofu/Terraform for infrastructure management
• Need production-grade infrastructure quickly without months of development
• Lack deep DevOps or AWS expertise internally
• Have compliance requirements such as CIS, SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, NIST
• Want to avoid reinventing the wheel with infrastructure patterns
• Need to scale infrastructure as company grows
• Prefer owning code versus black-box managed services
• Value battle-tested, proven solutions over building from scratch

Less ideal scenarios

• Organizations with large, established DevOps teams preferring to build everything custom
• Very small companies with minimal infrastructure needs
• Companies requiring multi-cloud infrastructure
• Teams wanting fully managed services without code ownership