# Install cdktf with Homebrew

Cloud Development Kit for Terraform. Version 0.21.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:cdktf
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cdktf
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:cdktf
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.21.0
- **Source summary:** Cloud Development Kit for Terraform
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cdktf (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.21.0
## Project history and usage

CDK for Terraform, commonly packaged as cdktf, lets users define Terraform infrastructure with familiar programming languages and then synthesize Terraform configuration.

### Project history

HashiCorp introduced CDK for Terraform as an experimental bridge between Terraform and the construct-based CDK programming model. The official docs now present it as a Terraform workflow with its own CLI, project configuration file, generated provider bindings, and language support.

The official repository is hashicorp/terraform-cdk, while the packaged CLI command is cdktf. The 2026 Homebrew formula packages cdktf 0.21.0.

### Adoption history

CDKTF appealed to Terraform users who wanted loops, classes, libraries, testing patterns, and IDE type support from languages such as TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, and Go, while still targeting Terraform providers and state-oriented workflows.

Its adoption is clearest in the Terraform ecosystem rather than as a replacement for Terraform language itself: teams use it when generated bindings and programming-language abstractions justify the additional build step.

### How it is used

A CDKTF project uses cdktf.json to declare the language, app command, providers, modules, and CLI behavior. Developers run commands such as cdktf get, synth, diff, and deploy around generated Terraform artifacts.

### Why package nerds care

CDKTF is a package-manager crossroads: a Homebrew CLI formula wraps a Node-distributed tool that generates bindings for Terraform providers, so versioning touches npm packaging, Terraform provider constraints, generated code, and HashiCorp's Terraform release cadence.

### Timeline

- 2020: HashiCorp announces CDK for Terraform 0.1.
- 2020s: CDKTF grows language guides, provider/module generation, and a dedicated Terraform docs section.
- 2026: Homebrew formula packages cdktf 0.21.0.

### Related projects

- CDKTF is related to Terraform CLI, Terraform providers and modules, AWS CDK, constructs, and cdk8s through the shared CDK/construct programming model.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/hashicorp/terraform-cdk>
- <https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk>
- <https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cdktf>
- <https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cdktf/create-and-deploy/configuration-file>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/cdktf.json>


## Security Notes

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ./cdktf.json

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cdktf.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/cdktf.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph