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TLDR: terraform bad, pulumi good

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[–] superbirra@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cdktf is okish and I use it with python and typescript. What's the point here?

[–] nikaro@jlai.lu -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use if instead of the ugly count hack in HCL... 🤷‍♂️

[–] superbirra@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

in fact I use it, I hate hcl. So terraform is now good? :)

[–] nikaro@jlai.lu 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The author is actually fine with CDK, since it uses an actual programming language. That's the point of the article.

By the way, on a personal note, Terraform is still bad to my eyes since their license change.

[–] superbirra@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The author looks a bit uninformed

My sincere hope is that either Terraform or the OpenTF folks decide to invest in the CDK model.

because such a model is already here and it's cdktf. That's my point.

The rest of the article looks like a rant about the need of making choices and learning new stuff, which is meh at least

[–] nikaro@jlai.lu 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The author seems fully aware of the existence CDKTF, and by invest i think he means that they should privilege it instead of HCL. The point is that if you learn Python, it is reusable somewhere else. If you learn HCL, you learned a vendor language, it is only used in Terraform.

[–] superbirra@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah well duh, I did catch the point, it's pretty understandable. But that's a silly point, there is plenty of ignorant nerds already, no real need for ignorant lazy nerds

[–] nikaro@jlai.lu 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah we are better served with pedantic nerds that thinks they know IaC better than some top engineer at an IaC vendor 🤷