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In case of cloud providers its quite often that Terraform Providers are updated faster by dedicated teams than their own Cloud solutions. Cloudformation or AWS
by pojzon 4y ago
In case of cloud providers its quite often that Terraform Providers are updated faster by dedicated teams than their own Cloud solutions.
Cloudformation or AWS CDK are upgraded slower than providers for example.
So this argument is mot.
- NathanKP 4y agoIt's a mixed bag. From what I've seen its 50/50. Sometimes Terraform providers are way behind, and sometimes they are ahead. Additionally, the low level providers which are easiest to keep up to date don't really abstract much. It is mostly a one to one API mapping, so it doesn't make the AWS experience any "easier". I'm specifically speaking about tooling that attempts to abstract and simplify the AWS experience. This is where the trickiest decisions have to be made about which properties and options to surface, how to surface them if so, and which ones should just be left out and require the user to drop down a level to the lower level provider as a fallback.
- pojzon 4y agoThats called terraform modules. You dont need to understand what they deploy but dont be surprised that default values will be often not the best for your use case. Managers are long looking for a way to hire cheap labor. Issue us cheap labor lacks knowledge required to build soecialized things. And thankfully it will never change, no tool can provide that.
- scarface74 4y agoAWS employees are contributors to Terraform.