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Cloudformation is a tragedy in itself.
by isatty 7y ago
Cloudformation is a tragedy in itself.
- TheCraiggers 7y agoIt's infinitely better than what Azure provides, IMO.
- falcolas 7y agoThe idea behind CloudFormation is great, though. Platform-native IAC with promised first party support for all future projects, and backfilling existing services. Plus, it supports deep integrations with first-party supported configuration management services. The problem is that the reality has not lived up to the promise, and "first party support" means "only the first party can support".
- devonkim 7y agoCloudFormation is a declarative state management language and framework just like Terraform. The problem is that CF abstracts said state away from you to the degree that you can't hack around it and you wind up forcibly deleting resources if you try to use it like a configuration management framework. With CF Custom Resources you can add all sorts of other stuff and that's pretty cool at least.
- tech_tuna 7y agoI am a Terraform convert, I agree.