kilolock.dev

Kilolock Documentation

Kilolock is a Terraform and OpenTofu backend with a PostgreSQL-backed state model, query workflows, and optional higher-level coordination features.

The simplest way to think about it is:

• day one: use it as a standard HTTP backend
• day two: use kl to inspect state in ways plain Terraform does not support
• later: adopt scoped or orchestrated workflows when shared-state coordination becomes painful

Start here

New to Kilolock

• Self-Hosted Quickstart
• Kilolock Cloud
• CLI Overview

Most useful kl examples

• Querying State with kl
• Status, History, and Repair
• Scoped and Advanced Apply

Technical reference

• Protocol
• Schema
• Terraform Compatibility
• Architecture and ADRs

What Kilolock adds beyond vanilla Terraform

Plain Terraform plus a normal backend gives you remote state storage and locking.

Kilolock adds:

• direct SQL-style state queries
• per-resource history inspection
• targeted repair and rollback-oriented workflows
• backend-aware quota checks
• scoped plan/apply helpers
• more advanced coordination patterns for large shared states

The strongest part of the product story is not abstract architecture language. It is concrete operator workflows. This site therefore emphasizes command examples early.

Source model

This site combines:

• curated public-facing pages authored in kilolockdocs
• selected technical docs imported from kilolockoss

That keeps implementation-heavy material close to the OSS codebase while still giving kilolock.dev a coherent public documentation surface.