Thanks for the link. Ive not yet had a chance to play with Terraform 0.12 but from what I've read it does sound like HCL v2 is definitely a step in the right di

Thanks for the link. Ive not yet had a chance to play with Terraform 0.12 but from what I've read it does sound like HCL v2 is definitely a step in the right direction. However so long as it's primarily a data serialisation format I think I'm going to take issue writing Terraform code in it because sometime you just need to express something procedurally. Maybe I'm just in the minority here? Or maybe I've just been spoilt with tools like Puppet and Bash but I can't help feeling that HCL is a step backwards in terms of expressiveness. I wasn't aware about the JSON subset / Consul problem though. That's really interesting to read. It's funny because back when I was building test Consul cluster I did wonder why JSON was used for config instead of HCL. I guess now I know why.