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Re:AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References,... by sjellis on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @12:44AM (#12537129)
YAML is a step forward, but I wish that Amazon would give up on CloudFormation. It seems like it isn't a templating system so much as a bad programming language in the making.
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Re:AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References,... by aventrix on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @02:25AM (#12537531)
I agree that it leaves much to be desired. What do you recommend instead?
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Re:AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References,... by harlowja on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @02:29AM (#12537551)
Pick your favorite programming language (or say ansible if u really love more yaml, or ...).
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Re:AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References,... by nikolay on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @04:12AM (#12537946)
Except that you can't do what CloudFormation does with just a programming languages alone or with Ansible.
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Re:AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References,... by petetnt on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @03:25AM (#12537775)
Simplified substitutions alone are a much needed upgrade. Writing Fn::joins everywhere was not only error prone, but also time consuming and confusing.
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Re:AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References,... by aventrix on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:15PM (#12535884)
Very excited to play with these new updates. They were much needed! It'll be nice to get rid of the duplicated logic between stacks. Also, comments!
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Re:AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References,... by willejs on Monday September 19, 2016 @07:28PM (#12535625)
http://terraform.io
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Re:AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References,... by aventrix on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:41PM (#12536031)
Do you use it? I've always been hesitant to add another layer of abstraction, as AWS already takes forever to push updates into CloudFormation.
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Re:AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References,... by Kaedon on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @04:50PM (#12543289)
Yeah, I use Terraform and like it quite a bit. Terraform tends to be quite responsive to changes in AWS land and `terraform plan` is incredibly useful. It's saved me from blowing away instances a few times.
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