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I am actually really sad about how bad HashiCorp has dropped the ball. I'm a huge fan of theirs and Mitchell's in particular (not that this reflects on him real
by time0ut 3y ago
I am actually really sad about how bad HashiCorp has dropped the ball. I'm a huge fan of theirs and Mitchell's in particular (not that this reflects on him really). Their plans for monetization are just so uninspired. They absolutely deserve to make money. I want them to. I want them to stick around and lift the rest of the industry (even if just a little).
Improving the developer experience around Terraform is worthwhile, but just not that valuable. The experience is already good enough. I write Terraform daily. Its weird sometimes, but fine once you get used to it. Never been impressed with Terraform Cloud the times I've tried it. The open source ecosystem is a little wild west sometimes, but great overall.
I wish they'd looked at building something higher order on top of it. Imagine if their premium offering abstracted Terraform away entirely. With their technical expertise they could build a platform where you built infrastructure like Legos. Eliminate the need to write Terraform. Reduce the need to understand the nuances of the cloud providers and any other provider they choose to support. Provide premium options that have certain compliance guarantees. If done well, this could print money.
I'm sure there are tons of other things they could do that'd have companies begging them to take their money. What is happening?
- nijave 3y agoWeaveworks Terraform Controller for Kubernetes has been pretty good as a "run Terraform for you" tool. Of course you now need Kubernetes but you could just throw it in a basic, managed cluster that only runs that component.
- jeremyjh 3y ago> Of course you now need Kubernetes but you could just throw it in a basic, managed cluster that only runs that component. What a time to be alive.