Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform

Re:Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Pla... by scrollaway on Friday August 05, 2016 @04:12PM (#12235430)

While we're on the subject, I want to mention terraform (https://www.terraform.io/).

I'm not going to straight up recommend using it, but I will recommend checking it out. It's certainly a lot better than CF, but it still has really glaring issues and very much feels like alpha software (see discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12213935 and some of my complaints here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12214358).

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Re:Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Pla... by yeukhon on Friday August 05, 2016 @05:30PM (#12235870)

I am on the opposite fence. I also comment on the recent Terraform discussion. Basically the abstraction layer is too complex; why not template JSON and build the cloudformation stack? In the end, nested CF stack is still, a hard problem.

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Re:Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Pla... by scrollaway on Friday August 05, 2016 @05:47PM (#12235938)

Why do you think the abstraction layer is too complex? I found terraform was essentially designed with AWS as a first-class citizen (if not for AWS in the first place), which means everything maps really well.

I strongly dislike HCL, but that's essentially what it is - templated JSON.

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