> A tool like Terraform, from my perspective, should be stateless. It ought to compare its target to the world, and then attempt to converge the world to match

> A tool like Terraform, from my perspective, should be stateless. It ought to compare its target to the world, and then attempt to converge the world to match the target. This is how BOSH has been doing it for years for IaaS setup and other systems like Salt/Puppet/Chef/cfengine for servers. Compare-and-repair is a fairly well-accepted, trustworthy model. Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, we donate most of the engineering on BOSH. [0] https://bosh.io/ https://bosh.io/