Gruntwork Newsletter, Spring 2026

Every few months, we round up what’s new across Gruntwork and the broader DevOps ecosystem. This issue covers everything we’ve shipped so far in 2026, from major milestones to practical improvements you can use right away. Note that some of the links below may lead to private repositories in the Gruntwork Infrastructure as Code Library that are accessible only to customers.

As always, if you have any questions or need help, reach out at support@gruntwork.io.

In This Issue

• Terragrunt Scale Free Tier
• Terragrunt 1.0
• New Infrastructure Dashboard (Preview)
• AWS IaC Library 1.0
• Performance & DX Improvements in Terragrunt
• Industry Updates

Terragrunt Scale Free Tier Now Available

We’ve introduced a free tier for Terragrunt Scale, making our GitOps CI/CD tooling for Terragrunt available to try in your own repos and environments, with no local setup required.

You can use it for free with:

• Up to 25 infrastructure units
• No contract or credit card required
• Full access to real workflows (not a demo)

If you’ve been curious about Pipelines or waiting for a low-friction way to evaluate it, try the free tier to get started and start deploying in as little as 15 minutes.

🎉 Terragrunt 1.0

Terragrunt 1.0 is here! This release represents a major step forward in stability, performance, and long-term maintainability. While much of the work focused on refining existing capabilities, the result is a faster, more predictable foundation for managing infrastructure at scale.

Notable improvements include:

• Streamlined CLI and improved developer experience
• Stacks provide a powerful new abstraction to help you organize your infrastructure (migrate today)
• A new, comprehensive system to filter units with the --filter flag
• Run reports provide useful summaries for every execution
• Significant performance gains

For the full breakdown, see the Terragrunt 1.0 announcement and release notes.

New Infrastructure Dashboard (Preview)

We’ve introduced a new dashboard in the Developer Portal—turning it into a real-time view of your infrastructure. It offers a consolidated view of your infrastructure organization and recent activity.

At a glance, you can see:

• What infrastructure you have across repos and environments
• What’s been deployed recently (and whether it succeeded)
• Recent activity and usage

This is an early preview, currently available in the Terragrunt Scale free tier, with a broader rollout coming later this year. You can try it today.

Gruntwork takes data privacy and security very seriously.  See our policies for more info on how we protect the limited data we collect.

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🎉 AWS IaC Library 1.0

After 6 years of iteration, our AWS Service Catalog has reached v1.0.0.

This milestone formalizes our commitment to Semantic Versioning (SemVer), making upgrades more predictable and reducing the risk of unexpected breaking changes.

We’ve also completed full support for AWS provider v6 across the entire library.

What this means for you:

• A stable, production-ready module library with clear versioning guarantees
• No need to mix provider versions across modules
• Easier, more predictable upgrades going forward

See the v1.0.0 release notes and the provider v6 upgrade guide.

Terragrunt Improvements

Beyond the 1.0 milestone, we’ve shipped a number of practical improvements that should make day-to-day usage faster and smoother.

Faster Rendering

The render --format=json command no longer performs dependency discovery by default, removing a major source of unnecessary overhead. The render command is now focused solely on rendering Terragrunt configurations in HCL/JSON. We recommend discovery commands like find and list for inspecting graph relationships.

Smarter Discovery

Terragrunt now avoids parsing irrelevant units when filters are applied, which can significantly speed up runs in large repos.

Better Windows Support

Path-related functions now return OS-native paths, improving compatibility with scripts and tooling on Windows. This ensures compatibility when combining these paths with functions like run_cmd().

New Website

Terragrunt has a new home at terragrunt.com (yes, that’s 40% fewer characters to type). You’ll also find a new design, improved documentation, educational materials, and migration guides.

Industry Updates

A few notable developments from the broader ecosystem this quarter:

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe

The cloud-native community gathered again this quarter, with strong momentum around OpenTofu and ecosystem tooling.

Trivy supply chain attack

A sophisticated attack compromised parts of the Trivy ecosystem, including GitHub Actions integrations. This is a good reminder to:

• Pin dependencies (e.g., SHA pinning in GitHub Actions)
• Review third-party integrations regularly

You can view the full incident report.

Ingress-NGINX retired

Ingress-NGINX has been retired. If you’re still using it, now’s the time to evaluate migration paths such as the Kubernetes Gateway API.

Wrapping Up

This has been a big start to the year!

• A new free way to try Terragrunt Scale
• A major 1.0 milestone for both Terragrunt and the AWS library
• Better visibility into your infrastructure with the new dashboard

We look forward to sharing more soon.