I have been using terraform professionally at my current workplace for a while now and I would not recommend it to anyone when building and maintaining non-triv

I have been using terraform professionally at my current workplace for a while now and I would not recommend it to anyone when building and maintaining non-trivial infrastructure. - state management is a sad joke. Which would be fine if it wouldn't end up being an expensive joke sometimes. And by sometimes I mean right when you need to change production. Try destroying your stack with an AWS KMS key. Then create it again. Try killing apply and then try re-applying it. I have witnessed hours of developer time going down the drain to figure out what terraform was able to do, import resources, convince terraform that resources are added, write scripts to delete stuff.. A complete nightmare. Oh yeah, but just run apply twice, that usually fixes it. There is no such thing as a rollback in the world of terraform. We only roll forward! - bUt ItS cLouD AgNoSTic. No, it's not. You're writing separate stacks with their separate own custom resources and their separate requirements and separate policies. Just use cloudformation, gdm or whatever your cloud uses and automate these using a script if you're doing crosscloud crap. - but I want to avoid vendor lock-in. See above, odds are that you're already locked-in but still in denial. - HCL. I get it. Declarative, nice and clean. HAHAHA, who am I kidding. It sucks, it's stupid and pointless. Awful to write, awful to read, inconsistent, no proper tooling or editor support. Good luck maintaining dependencies or comprehending a complex stack. Why didn't they just build a DSL over a language people already know? Good luck 'refactoring' your resource definitions. Oh, and you also want to test it somehow without affecting a remote environment? Again, good luck, sucker. Because 'the plan' is a lie. And error messages seem to be written by someone waging war against their customers. In conclusion, I do not recommend terraform. In my opinion it is an overhyped piece of technology on which I would not bet my company/money on.