It doesn't matter if it's AWS or an application.conf, you still want to manage the state of your infrastructure. That management might be Terraform and Helm, b

It doesn't matter if it's AWS or an application.conf, you still want to manage the state of your infrastructure. That management might be Terraform and Helm, but it could easily be argued that a module for Puppet or Ansible would have several advantages. Unfortunately, instead of nourishing their open source roots they went corporate and began making enterprise products instead. It is an easy way to profitability but at the same time will make yourself less relevant for your user base. Compare with Docker Inc. and Elastic NV. They had the misfortune of doing this at the same time as Python was edging out Ruby's mindshare, also visible in the slow shift from Rails to Django over the decade, thereby doubling down on the road to slow irrelevancy. This is all pretty unfortunate since the sysadmin tooling in the cloud native era leaves a lot to be desired, but it is what it is.