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0 pointslatchkey2y ago0 comments

While I agree with you about TF having a lot of issues, the comment isn't helpful. What would you suggest otherwise? Kind of a moot point now that the license is fubar'd, but what could be improved to make it better? If you could have a do-over, what would that look like?

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zapnuk2y ago

Right now there is pulumi as a alternative that supports different clouds. Otherwise AWS CDK or Azure Bicep come to mind.

If i could to a do-over I'd want the solution to look and feel like AWS CDK but without the cloudformation in the background, and support for GCP and Azure.

I've worked with CDK for 2 years now and being able to define your code in Typescript is quite handy and drastically reduces the effort it takes for new people to learn how our deployment work. It's also quite nice to be able to directly bundle and deploy the application together with the infrascructure with very little effort.

latchkeyOP2y ago

The mind boggles why Pulumi doesn't do ssh.

I have a whole bunch of bare metal sitting in data centers all over the world, how am I expected to manage it?

Ansible/Salt/Chef is obviously one type of solution, but like you said, being able to code things in TS is really nice.

One thing TF does well, is bare metal.

yjftsjthsd-h2y ago

> One thing TF does well, is bare metal.

How? I've always viewed TF as good at anything except metal; the best I would know to do is remote-exec but at that point you might as well drop to raw shell.

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