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Last I checked, CDK was just a typescript veneer atop the steaming pile that is known as CloudFormation. Not even tagged unions can polish that turd.
by koolba 3y ago
Last I checked, CDK was just a typescript veneer atop the steaming pile that is known as CloudFormation.
Not even tagged unions can polish that turd.
- Spivak 3y agoAnd it always will be, cdktf is the same but on Terraform objects. At some point you have to reach the end and spit out the final list of stuff you want. If you want full imperative just use the AWS sdk or Ansible but I think people have realized how not maintainable that pattern is.
- emodendroket 3y agoSure, like C is just a veneer on top of machine language.
- baq 3y agoEvery time I need to do something in CDK I am reminded of https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/ except the whole thing is my config and the tiny bit is the thing I want to understand how to change.
- ActorNightly 3y agoCFN is also a bunch of abstraction over api calls. You can set up infrastructure using boto3 if you want, for free.