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You just described the role of Terraform. HCL is very JSON like and human readable
by firesteelrain 3y ago
You just described the role of Terraform. HCL is very JSON like and human readable
- rirze 3y agofwiw, you can write Terraform in JSON too. Not recommending it, but it's equivalent.
- firesteelrain 3y agoYea HashiCorp talks about it but also does not recommend it
- twic 3y agoI've never used Terraform. So HCL is the low-level language i talk about; what does a human write to generate it?
- firesteelrain 3y agoThey write HCL/JSON. It’s not by definition low level anything per computer science standards. It’s very high level. It’s declarative.
- twic 3y agoSo not what i described at all then. The whole idea is to have a low-level language you can generate with high-level code written in a real programming language.
- firesteelrain 3y agoIaC isn’t programming. It is more like config files that have some scripting elements like for loops