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While we're on the subject, I want to mention terraform (https://www.terraform.io/ https://www.terraform.io/). I'm not going to straight up recommend using it,
by scrollaway 10y ago
While we're on the subject, I want to mention terraform (https://www.terraform.io/ https://www.terraform.io/).
I'm not going to straight up recommend using it, but I will recommend checking it out. It's certainly a lot better than CF, but it still has really glaring issues and very much feels like alpha software (see discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12213935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12213935 and some of my complaints here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12214358 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12214358).
- yeukhon 10y agoI am on the opposite fence. I also comment on the recent Terraform discussion. Basically the abstraction layer is too complex; why not template JSON and build the cloudformation stack? In the end, nested CF stack is still, a hard problem.
- scrollaway 10y agoWhy do you think the abstraction layer is too complex? I found terraform was essentially designed with AWS as a first-class citizen (if not for AWS in the first place), which means everything maps really well. I strongly dislike HCL, but that's essentially what it is - templated JSON.