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Funny thing is Terraform isn't really cloud agnostic. I don't understand why this keeps coming up as a selling point all the time. Apart from the syntax of HCL
by Too 5y ago
Funny thing is Terraform isn't really cloud agnostic. I don't understand why this keeps coming up as a selling point all the time. Apart from the syntax of HCL and the concept of state-management. You still have to learn each vendors unique resource-types, which is like 10000 times more difficult than the underlying HCL language.
It's still a great product for lots of other reasons, just don't believe for one second it will help you move from AWS to Azure. It's almost like saying YAML is multi-vendor.
- technofiend 5y agoThis is true. But there are ways to hide that with one more layer. For instance the rackn guys just released an update to digital rebar that uses pipelines and brokers to stand up infrastructure using among other things terraform but the user just specs out what they want in simple profiles. Digital rebar supports aws, linode, digital ocean, etc. You still have to specify a few things unique to each cloud provider but the scripting for each is otherwise the same.