resourcestools

Resourcestools is an open-source toolkit designed to help organizations manage and optimize their computing resources across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The project provides a modular set of command-line tools, APIs, and libraries for discovering, inventorying, provisioning, and monitoring resources, with an emphasis on transparency, reproducibility, and policy-driven automation.

Core capabilities include resource discovery and inventory, usage and cost reporting, quota management, and automation workflows. The toolkit supports declarative resource definitions, policy-as-code, and plug-in extensions to integrate with infrastructure-as-code systems, cloud providers, container platforms, and monitoring services. It is designed to be platform-agnostic and vendor-neutral.

Architecture comprises a CLI, a RESTful API, and a client library. A plugin system enables third-party modules to add support for new resource types or providers. Configuration is stored in YAML or JSON, and users can define resource policies, alerts, and workflows as code, enabling repeatable operations and auditability.

Resourcestools originated from an open community of developers and IT professionals focused on resource governance and cost control. Since its inception, it has seen steady adoption in software development, data engineering, and cloud operations teams, with contributions spanning core tooling, providers, and integrations.

The project is released under a permissive open-source license (e.g., MIT, Apache-2.0) and maintained on a public repository with issue tracking, documentation, and community support channels.