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That is why immutable infra becomes popular. You could easily destroy and rebuild the whole thing. And for Prod env, what are discussing sounds like update be
by xmly 7y ago
That is why immutable infra becomes popular. You could easily destroy and rebuild the whole thing.
And for Prod env, what are discussing sounds like update behavior for me. In cloudformation, you could choose the different update policies.
Comparing with each cloud's provisioning engine, cloudformation/gcloud deployment manager/azure resource manager, terraform is lacking a lot of features. So unless you are dealing with a private cloud, using cloud default provisioning service is a no-brainer.
- cosaquee 7y agoCloud formation is after lacking support for resources that are new or less popular. Terraform is much better in this, supports most of the resources from the start as far as I know
- paulddraper 7y agoConsidering the staggering breadth of AWS, it is amazing how fast and completely Terraform supports AWS. Only a couple times have I actually encountered unsupport features (1. global WAF 2. non-canned S3 bucket policy)
- xmly 7y agoIn cloudformation, you could customize your resource types with aws lambda. It is like creating the providers in terraform. Plus, cloudformation is free and managed service. You do not need to maintain and it is wrong, you could yell at AWS. Unless you bought terraform enterprise, it is still a pain to maintain another possible failure point in your system.