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On a related note, CDK for Terraform allows DevOps practitioners to use a variety of programming languages instead of HCL. I've really enjoyed modeling my AWS environments with Python using Terraform only as the engine. More info here: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
Out of curiosity what is it that people generally don't like about HCL?
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So regular CDK is basically a program-driven CFN generator. Pulumi has a similar model where you build a resource graph at runtime BUT it's also got the execution engine built-in to the tool. What this means in practice is that you can create resources (like a kube cluster) and then use them as providers (e.g provision state tracked resources with kube api) all in the same operation. You can also (in your infracode o…
>"So regular CDK is basically a program-driven CFN generator." What is CFN here? Cloudformation?
On a related note, CDK for Terraform allows DevOps practitioners to use a variety of programming languages instead of HCL. I've really enjoyed modeling my AWS environments with Python using Terraform only as the engine. More info here: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
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I haven't used Ansible so maybe I'm incorrect here but aren't tf and Ansible solving slightly different problems? Terraform feels like infrastructure management to me. We use it to provision underlying resources: Networking, Clusters, Nodes, Alerts, etc. All of the actual code deployments are entirely separate. Ansible is more of a configuration management right?
I've never used them but there are modules to provision stuff on AWS: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/scenario_guides/guid... Edit: seems limited to ec2 and s3: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/amazon/a... Although you could provision other services with some custom modules using the aws-cli.
On a related note, CDK for Terraform allows DevOps practitioners to use a variety of programming languages instead of HCL. I've really enjoyed modeling my AWS environments with Python using Terraform only as the engine. More info here: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
terraform was a great idea but the language makes devops folks have to do a lot of extra work, purely due to language design features. Terragrunt helps with a lot of that, but combined with the version churn, long-standing bugs, and more, I really wanted an alternative that was small, and simple. Also: why isn't the state file created at command invocation by querying AWS for the state? Or at least have an option to…
For the latter: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
On a related note, CDK for Terraform allows DevOps practitioners to use a variety of programming languages instead of HCL. I've really enjoyed modeling my AWS environments with Python using Terraform only as the engine. More info here: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
Why "practitioner"? it really does not feel like the correct term.
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Have you ever set something up manually via AWS console, then 6 months later totally forgot the steps you took and end up wasting a lot of time reverse engineering what you did in order to make a comparatively small change? After that perhaps you vowed to take better notes, so the next time you do it that way, but then 6 months later you find that you missed some detail, or there was some changes in between that were…
The jump from what you mentioned in paragraph 2 to 3 is not necessarily Terraform. You can use other tools, like Ansible, that IMO have a much better framework than Terraform. I use Terraform for extremely simple stuff that is easy to destroy/recreate. Projects of bigger scale IMO are better served with Ansible and friends.
On a related note, CDK for Terraform allows DevOps practitioners to use a variety of programming languages instead of HCL. I've really enjoyed modeling my AWS environments with Python using Terraform only as the engine. More info here: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
If you like CDK, then i highly recommend pulumi
Tried it again last month and it's better, but I had to do a lot of trial and error. ie. (Try to figure out how to provision an EC2 instance with a root volume. They copied part of the docs from terraform but sections are missing.)
On a related note, CDK for Terraform allows DevOps practitioners to use a variety of programming languages instead of HCL. I've really enjoyed modeling my AWS environments with Python using Terraform only as the engine. More info here: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
I really wish CDK supported writing a Terraform plugin in any of those languages.