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For the same amount of memory they should cost _nearly_ identical. Run the numbers. They're not significantly different services. Aside from this you do NOT pay for IPv4 when using Lambda, you do on EC2, and so Lambda is almost always less expensive.
> 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.
CDK is far better than Terraform.
I'm trying to make the decision for where to go with my home lab, and while Pulumi and Cue look neat, cdk8s seems so predictable & has such clear structure & form to it.
That's said the l1/l2/l3 distinction can be a brute to deal with. There's significant hidden complexity there.
That made me laugh. Yes I get that they probably didn't use all of these at the same time.
> 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.
Any opinion on Pulumi?
Granted, I'm a programmer, have been for a long time, so using programming tools is a no brainer for me. If someone wants to manage infra but doesn't have programming skills, then learning the Terraform config language is a great idea. Just kidding, it's going to be just as confusing and obnoxious as learning the basic skills you need in python/js to get up and running with Pulumi.
I disagree on Kubernetes versus ECS. For me, the reasons to use ECS are not having to pay for a control plane, and not having to keep up with the Kubernetes upgrade treadmill.
This. k8s is primarily resume driven development in most software shops. Hardly any product or service really needs its complexity.
I wish luck to the imo fools chasing the "you may not need it" logic. The vacuum that attitude creates in its wake demands many many many complex & gnarly home-cooked solutions.
Can you? Sure, absolutely! But you are doing that on your own, glueing it all together every step of the way. There's no other glue layer anywhere remotely as integrative, that can universally bind to so much. The value is astronomical, imho.
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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.
Yeah, but ansible is one of the nine circles of hell and its support for various AWS services beyond EC2 and S3 is near nonexistant.
For my current startup I ended up not going a direction where I needed ansible. I've now got everything in helm charts and deployable to K8S clusters, and packaged with Dockerfiles. Not really missing ansible, but not exactly in love with K8S either. It works well enough I guess.
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As a counterpoint, I find our AWS super team to be a mix of 40% helpful, 40% “things we say are going over their head,” 20% attempting to upsell and expand our dependence. It’s nice that we have humans but I don’t think it’s a reason to choose it or not. GCP’s architecture seems clearly better to me especially if you are looking to be global. Every organization I’ve ever witnessed eventually ends up with some kind of…
Global VPCs are very nice but they feel like a single blast radius.
> 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.
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.