alt Hacker News> SREs should configure their infra by hand sometimes to not lose that skill
Actually... yeah, I'd totally say that. Some SREs in my company never wrote a single line of HCL that wasn't a call to a in-house, pre-approved module. They think they know Terraform - they don't, and they don't know what's under these modules either.
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MrDarcy • yesterday at 7:48 PM
Terraform, as with any language, is mostly useless for humans now. It is for the agents full stop. You are correct though, we need to know the underlying architecture and most importantly why it is the way it is.
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I don't even have experience with Terraform at all...
I'm using something different myself: a Docker Compose + reverse proxy config + some other support files, pushed to a private GitHub repo, which then triggers a GitHub Actions workflow that leads to the repository being pulled on the VPS and the infrastructure to be "rebuilt" (docker compose up, reverse proxy graceful restart).