Terraform Scripting Concepts
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Terraform Scripting Concepts
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Re: Terraform Scripting Concepts
#2I hate seeing Terraform script or scripting. Am I the only one?
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#3“script” seems like absolutely the wrong terminology for something as die-hard-declarative as Terraform.
In my circle of engineers we tend to call it “code” but this isn’t ideal either - implies a general purpose language.
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#4I hate seeing Terraform script or scripting . Am I the only one?
nope.
Re: Terraform Scripting Concepts
#5“script” seems like absolutely the wrong terminology for something as die-hard-declarative as Terraform. In my circle of engineers we tend to call it “code” but this isn’t ideal either - implies a general purpose language.
Comprehension, like list comprehension, might be a better term
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#6I hate seeing Terraform script or scripting . Am I the only one?
What do you think of Pulumi?
My understanding is that this essentially uses TF as a backend
Re: Terraform Scripting Concepts
#7“script” seems like absolutely the wrong terminology for something as die-hard-declarative as Terraform. In my circle of engineers we tend to call it “code” but this isn’t ideal either - implies a general purpose language.
My circle also just use "code" as far as I'm aware, though I tend to think of it as a definition instead. Template would also fit but you can use templates within Terraform so that could be confusing.
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#8I hate seeing Terraform script or scripting . Am I the only one?
No you’re not the only one. The problem with Terraform “Scripting” is in a lot of cases it takes a loooong time to find out your “runtime” errors. These are typically fat fingered strings. I think something like AWS CDK, where you find these errors at compile, time is a better approach.
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#10I hate seeing Terraform script or scripting . Am I the only one?
What do you think of Pulumi? My understanding is that this essentially uses TF as a backend
Your understanding is wrong. The CRUD logic of some commonly used providers is based upon that in Terraform providers, but the TF engine is not used by Pulumi.