alt Hacker News> Picking Terraform over Cloudformation: Endorse
I, too, prefer McDonald's cheeseburgers to ground glass mixed with rusty nails. It's not so much that I love Terraform (spelled OpenTofu) as that it's far and away the least bad tool I've used in the space.
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walt_grata • today at 2:41 AM
I've been very happy using cdk for interacting with aws. Much better than terraform and the like.
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easterncalculus • today at 3:16 AM
You can honestly do a lot of what people do with Terraform now just using Docker and Ansible. I'm surprised more people don't try to. Most clouds are supported, even private clouds and stuff like MAAS.
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Terraform/openTofu is more than OK. The fact that you can use to to configure your Cisco products as well as AWS is honestly great for us. It's also a bit like ansible: if you don't manage it carefully and try to separate as much as possible early, it starts bloating, so you have to curate early.
Terragrunt is the only sane way to deploy terraform/openTofu in a professional environment though.