I've got a lot of opinions here, but the only one I'll share is that HCL knocks the socks off of json and yaml. Json is too rigid. YAML is too nested. HCL gets

I've got a lot of opinions here, but the only one I'll share is that HCL knocks the socks off of json and yaml. Json is too rigid. YAML is too nested. HCL gets this just right. Venturing away from opinions, the provider ecosystem with terraform enables some wonderful design options. For example, I have a module template that takes some basic container configs (e.g. ports, healthchecks) and a GitHub URL, then stands the service up on ECS and configures CI in the linked repo. CF can't do that.