# Install terrahelp with Homebrew

Tool providing extra functionality for Terraform. Version 0.7.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-26.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:terrahelp
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install terrahelp
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:terrahelp
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.7.5
- **Source summary:** Tool providing extra functionality for Terraform
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/opencredo/terrahelp>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/opencredo/terrahelp>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-26T00:50:37+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- terrahelp (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.7.5
## Project history and usage

Terrahelp is OpenCredo's Go-based helper CLI for Terraform workflows, chiefly focused on encrypting, decrypting, and masking sensitive Terraform-related output and files.

### Project history

The public repository was created in March 2016, placing Terrahelp among the early wave of Terraform-adjacent command-line helpers. Its README describes the project as supplementary functionality for Terraform development rather than a replacement for Terraform itself.

The documented feature set centers on encrypt and decrypt commands, simple or Vault-backed encryption providers, Vault autoconfiguration, and a masking command that can overwrite sensitive values in files or piped command output.

### Adoption history

Terrahelp's adoption was tied to a practical early Terraform pain point: state files and command output could contain sensitive values. The README points users to an OpenCredo article on securing Terraform state with Vault for additional background, and repository metadata showed a modest long-lived audience by July 2026.

The package-manager history is mostly Unix-like. The README documents Homebrew installation, release-page binaries, and an AUR package, while also stating that Windows was not yet supported.

### How it is used

Users install the CLI, then run terrahelp encrypt, decrypt, mask, or vault-autoconfig against files or piped Terraform command output.

The tool fits CI and shell pipelines where teams want to reduce exposure of Terraform state or command output without introducing a larger workflow orchestrator.

### Why package nerds care

For package-manager users, Terrahelp is a compact example of the older Terraform helper-tool ecosystem: a single-purpose Go binary, Homebrew formula, release artifacts, and optional distro packaging wrapped around a sharp operational task.

### Timeline

- 2016: Public GitHub repository created under opencredo.
- 2010s: README-documented installation includes Homebrew, release binaries, and community AUR packaging.
- 2026: Homebrew metadata still lists terrahelp as a brew formula.

### Related projects

- Terraform is the primary workflow Terrahelp augments.
- Vault is an optional encryption provider in the documented Terrahelp workflow.
- TerraHash, Terragrunt, and Terramate are adjacent Terraform helper and orchestration CLIs.

### Sources

- Input package metadata: source_facts.package-manager, source_facts.package-manager-url
- README: https://github.com/opencredo/terrahelp#readme
- Repository metadata: https://api.github.com/repos/opencredo/terrahelp


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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